At the time he was viewed as critical to the project. They indulged him. A very steady stream of very good devs leaving the company occurred because of such invented rules and irrational behaviour. He was a truly great dev, but a fairly insane architect and gatekeeper.
He was originally hired as the sole developer 10 years ago, but the project grew too big, and instead of hiring a manager to oversee the project and hire more devs, they moved him into a management position, and put him in charge of hiring new developers.
He had personal and financial issues. The pay was cash + profit share. When the cash was fulfilled he had to make ends meet because the profit share was negligible. He was a good developer and a good guy and I don't blame him for going AWOL.
A former boss used to be a higher up at Kaseya before I worked with him. From his description of their development process, and his general lack of respect for developers, I’m not surprised.
According to him, they outsourced the majority of their development, and he had no clue that there could be any downside to this.
Within a few months of taking over, every single developer in the company left.
It goes both ways. The other founder dropped him and left him with nothing but a useless codebase, he can’t even get any kind of recognition because he’s expected to not release the code he wrote. He’s been fucked.
Nothing. I left soon after myself and had no interest in moving forward with the product or codebase. Didn't figure it was worth my time to challenge him about it.
He didn't get any support from me though and, if I got to know him well enough in that year, I'd say he didn't get much further with it. Google brings up nada so I'm probably right.
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