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		HDThoreaun on May 26, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun t... It turns out that doing a good job at work is more important than having fun.

JKCalhoun on May 26, 2025 [–]

You might get some pushback there. But obviously I would choose both. (And believe we had both before management started dictating how we coded.)

HDThoreaun on May 28, 2025 | [–]

In my experience shops that dont have testing guidelines end up with untested code, and in my experience untested code always has bugs.

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