Sandeep Rao ·
Working on an old system is not a career dead end, and it is often where the leverage is
Anyone can add a feature to a greenfield project. Making a fifteen-year-old system safe to change - tests, boundaries, an escape route for the worst module - is a rarer skill and one that transfers everywhere, because most companies are mostly legacy.
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