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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JavaScript Class Migration
- Chris Krycho's first project involved migrating 2 million lines of JavaScript code at LinkedIn to use modern classes.
- The process took 18 months, highlighting the challenge of large-scale migrations.
Automation for Large-Scale Migrations
- Migrations at scale require extensive automation.
- Manual rewriting is impractical, and expecting product teams to halt work is unreasonable.
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.