So my manager today asked me if I could stay later when there’s broken things in prod, and then today his star dream employee yolo’ed a full stack change into prod without review. It’s fucking massive and implements new API endpoints, touches >20 files. Many of the diffs are too large to render in the browser.
It’s almost comical, but something immediately broke.
Most of my day, I’m digging through code to identify bugs created from this shit, just to get a stealth merge midday.
I kind of don’t know what to do.
If your manager won’t hear anything negative about Vibelord, polish up your resume. There’s nothing you can do to change the culture of your team if the boss isn’t on board with it.
Not sure what kind of person your boss is, but if you want to try to win him over, try to figure out what might sway him. If he’s technically illiterate, talk to him about best practices (like, I dunno, code reviews) and cite reliable sources and data if you think that would help. Avoid calling out Lord Vibington, the main thing is to put a picture into your boss’s head of what this could/should look like. He might not realize that these issues are preventable.
The goal here is to get your boss to take more ownership of the team’s culture, and start insisting on preventative measures. Mr Viberator will either have to conform, or there will be increasing friction between him and the boss.