The tech world is rallying around a young developer who made a huge, embarrassing mistake
Found on Quartz on Sunday, 11 June 2017
On the first day as a junior software developer at a first salaried job out of college, his or her copy-and-paste error inadvertently erased all data from the company’s production database.
The company made several. It didn’t back up the database. It had poor security procedures and a sloppily-organized system that encouraged the very error cscareerthrowaway567 made. Then, rather than taking accountability for those problems, the CTO fired the rookie who revealed them. Of all the errors this company made, that last might be the most destructive to their future success.
Errors happen, and yes, this one is amongst the most catastrophic and embarrassing a rookie can make on his first day. To blame however is soley the company, who put the passwords to their main production database into a manual that's handed out to newbies and let him work on their network without anybody next to him to help. What's worse, their backup strategy was obviously non-existant too and instead of blaming those who were in charge, the CTO took it all out on the rookie who stumbled into the problem.