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Companies are more likely to reward engineers than scold them for pulling in that new “shiny library” that solves the problem they never actually had.

Perhaps I’m sheltered: is this really true in people’s experience?



Depends on the company. Amazon had a pretty bad case of NIH, Meta tended to embrace open-source (and as often as not, transitioned to embrace-extend-extinguish if they liked it enough)


Yes, it's extremely common, think at least 95% of the time.

Time to delivery is the main metric for almost any company that ships software.




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