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Management are management. They do managementy things. They do not develop. We, developers, do. For some things, we hold ourselves up to certain standards. Why not for site performance?

> I've totally given up with it and I've can write fast JS code. I just don't get rewarded for it. In fact it has be a detriment to my career.

Do you write tests? They also are something that doesn't directly bring money.



> Management are management. They do managementy things. They do not develop. We, developers, do. For some things, we hold ourselves up to certain standards. Why not for site performance?

I've just explained why. What part didn't you understand?

> Do you write tests? They also are something that doesn't directly bring money

I do (I like to know my code works). That doesn't mean other people will.

Much like site performance unless there is an emphasis on quality, then many developers won't bother writing tests.

I've had people copy and paste tests, then jig the code around so they got the green tick in the IDE. The feature didn't work at all. The test was complete nonsense. I have colleagues that put up PRs where the code doesn't even compile.




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