Comment by black_13
1 year ago
This is something ive seen at three defense companies ive worked for. They will toss the new hires in bad times but hang onto the old timers and let them do as the please. The rto never applies to them and they horde like smaug. The best job in defense is to be one of these. Boeing made lip service to passing on knowledge but when it came to true core ppl they were never part of the process.
I was supposed to do knowledge transfer at one job but I burned out and quit before it got done because my job was knowledge transfer, training new hires in C++ itself, putting out fires, fixing bugs, and shipping new features that had already been promised to customers I'd never heard of.
In terms of "Ars Longa, Vita Brevis" [1], I'm not as good of an indexer / teacher as I wish I was.
https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Ars-Longa-Vita-Brevis