Many years ago, the development team was set-up in a way that “proper” developers worked on enhancements, whereas Juniors worked on fixing bugs. To be honest, in many situations, fixing bugs is the hardest scenario.
I always like a variety, because doing a particular thing becomes tedious and isn’t giving you a good range of skills.
Julian started moaning about how he wanted to “do some enhancements”. He was itching to prove himself and craved variety.
The managers finally caved in and gave him a set of 4 enhancements to do as a mini-project over the course of a couple of months. When the deadline approached, he had left the company.
When we looked at his changes, only 2 looked even close to finished. They were riddled with bugs. One of them looked like an absolute botched implementation, and when I looked at the code and pasted it into Google, I found the Stack Overflow posts it was taken from.
Julian had just copied and pasted code, tried to change a few things here and there, but couldn’t improve it. I imagine he realised he has made a fool out of himself, so handed in his notice before we uncovered what a mess it was.
In the end, we just scrapped his code completely because it was a waste of time looking at it any further.
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