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I am an Android developer with several years of experience in the industry. Unfortunately, I've noticed a concerning trend in the quality of software, particularly among apps from so-called unicorn startups and top multinational corporations. Many of these apps are riddled with bugs that seem to slip through the QA process. Here are some examples of reproducible issues I've encountered: 1. In Paytm, when navigating to train bookings and accessing the PNR section, attempting to copy the PNR may result in the screen freezing upon scrolling up, with a blank white screen appearing when scrolling down. 2. Within the train module on Paytm, if the application process is terminated, an infinite loader may appear, and returning to the previous screen may lead to a white screen. 3. PhonePe recently addressed a blank screen issue on the payments page when the process was terminated. 4. PhonePe also fixed an issue where an infinite loader appeared when checking UPI balance, especially after the process was terminated on the UPI pin screen and the back button was pressed. 5. YouTube experiences sporadic crashes when the application process is terminated while using YT Shorts. 6. Instagram had countless bug in the past. 7. Reddit backstack management and deeplinks are hell. 8. Hostar has no security. I was able to decompile and make a debug build with code changes with my novice reverse engineering skills. The room database is even not encrypted. It does seem like some companies are conducting testing just for the sake of it. How are the codebases structured for your company? Is it common for companies to produce spaghetti code? Do all companies rely on manual testers. TLDR; what does the codebase look like in your company? Are the tests adequately written, and to what extent?

Recently under a post, in the comments, I saw someone brag about how he has slept with every new junior in almost every quarter. In another post's comment, I saw someone say how every girl he has met has a higher body count, and one of his friends got divorced because she was sending nudes to her ex on Snapchat. Someone also bragged about how she has dated and slept with some guys from the different companies. Another comment I read a long time back said how he has a physical relationship with some of the 'hot chicks' of his company. And this is just grapevine, and I'm not even including all similar things I read on Twitter and Reddit, of people bragging about having high body counts and sleeping with multiple colleagues. I am a bit confused. Is having a physical relationship with your colleague(s) a common thing in the IT Industry? or am I missing something?

Ask me anything except my company name, or things that can reveal my identity. I may respectfully choose not to respond to your question based on my own judgement. Here’s a brief intro about me: I’ve worked as both software engineering manager & software technical architect over the last 18+ years on various tech stacks managing backend, frontend and a little bit of cloud. I have seen ups and downs in the software industry. Currently I’m working as a senior architect in one of the product based companies in India.

So, I've been working with ReactJS for quite some time now. Kinda getting bored. So, I decided to spend some time upskilling this month and start applying for jobs next month. I have 2 things in my mind that I want to pickup, but unable to decide in what order I should add them to my arsenal. - NextJS 13 (app dir) - TS (for both ReactJS and NextJS) I also wanted to expand myself from frontend to fullstack (probably to MERN), but some fullstack devs suggested me to stick to one end and get really good at it because your expertise in one end is what fetches you a good job and not being a "jack of all trades, master of none" dev. So, this has also kept me in the middle ground right now. I did try to explore nextJS with a UI library but most UI libs ask you to have them declared as client components. Doesnt that defeat the advantage of SSR that we get on nextJS by default? Saw many people facing this issue. What would you suggest ?

Less than 50 days left to end 2023, What did you achieve this year?

Question is more towards understanding of a developer. May be at SDK or developer tools. Would love to understand on what can be built around SDK or developer tools.

Off late, the frontend engineering at Razorpay has become more of a data entry job. The design system (god knows how many years it will take to be completely ready) is restricting both the devs and the designers a LOT. Designers are literally fed up with being dictated to design things only in a particular way (limiting even animations, font-size, choice of italics v/s bold). There was even a long 2 month discussion to get font size for a component to support higher value, if you honestly want to know. The so called core team has been developing blade since God knows when. Agree that they've done a great work with tokens and other stuff, but it seems that by the time it's ready, it'll already be outdated design wise (suxs). So, any other devs, all they have to do is follows. 1. Open Figma 2. See if the component in Figma is supported by Blade. 3. If yes, then see if our designer has by mistake used any font-size, color, margin or spacing not supported by Blade. 4. If yes, start a thread between everyone and give them a month to come to a resolution (Blade team always retaliates like it's a personal attack) 5. Eventually end up using your own component to save time and move fast. 6. Explain to your manager's manager's manager why you can't use Blade. (they've funded it for 2 years and no dev likes it, so they push it from top) If your company has some interesting approach to this, please add in the comments.