CoRecursive: Coding Stories Story: Leaving LinkedIn - Choosing Engineering Excellence Over Expediency
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Mar 4, 2024 A software engineer, Chris, shares his story of choosing engineering excellence over expediency while working at LinkedIn. The podcast delves into his challenges with remote work, company culture, and a critical incident. It explores the clash between innovation and project health, leading Chris to decide between compromising his beliefs or pursuing work aligned with his principles.
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LinkedIn's Project Management System
- LinkedIn uses a system for large technical projects, limiting team commitment to under 10%.
- This approach arose from a costly year-long pause for service-oriented architecture adoption in the early 2010s.
Hidden Errors in Large Codebases
- High error volumes in large applications often stem from secondary code paths that break unexpectedly.
- These errors may be missed by testing due to their infrequent usage.
TypeScript Adoption at LinkedIn
- Chris advocated for TypeScript at LinkedIn to reduce JavaScript errors, which were in the millions per day.
- He estimated a potential reduction in logging volume by at least 25%.