Spotify’s focus on diversity has been the foundation of an enriched environment of culture, ideas, and innovative business solutions. However, diversity alone does not ensure open communication or retention in the workplace.
Historically when we developed large monolithic applications we had several ‘lower’ environments such as dev, test, staging, pre-prod for verifying different stages of our development life cycle. These were particularly used for manual testing – integration testing, gatekeeping, acceptance testing.
Increasingly, companies in business centres like London are combining offshore with local developers. Maximising the effectiveness in a mixed team environment is therefore critical to business success.
As a woman with a few years of experience in engineering I have often noticed that every team has a "Hero", as I have been one myself. The hero is usually identified as the hardworking, highly talented and knowledgeable team member.
Legacy is an inevitability in any business - systems that were once cutting edge naturally age, but still require careful maintenance. And although it’s important work, it can feel less rewarding than working on shiny new features.