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How do I pass a coding test?
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this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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I guess the CTO saw you as a threat to his position.
I'm trying to wrap my head around the CTO writing code unless it was from long ago when they were a developer. If that is the case, the CTO should understand that a better or more performant solution is likely over time. I'd say that was a bullet dodged. That's very poor executive behavior.
People have big egos. I've been in similiar situations as OP where the owner/CTO wrote a lot of the legacy code and weren't particularly receptive to criticism. No acknowledgement either when said criticism turned out to be a client facing vulnerability later on.
Yeah. Owning code is about taking responsibility for it being in a satisfactory state, it shouldn’t be overly personal and you also shouldn’t attack people directly when the code has problems. Everyone makes mistakes, learning from them is there important thing.
It was a really small startup where the CTO was one of the founders and had written the first version of everything. I don’t mean to belittle what he did, I have a lot of respect for people building thins from the ground up.
It was just a very odd episode and illustrative that you don’t always fail because you’re bad at coding.