Apropos of nothing: a change Rails made many years after existing, which is a positive change, is refusing to reset the database if you point it at a production environment. Culture isn’t just a firm thing. We, as an industry, have tolerated footguns far, far too long.
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Blameless Postmortems and Senior Engineer Support Culture
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Oh making something explicit that was implicit: there do exist companies who have blameless postmortem culture whose senior engineers would not take time out of their day to console a terrified newbie. And there exist ones with blameless postmortems where seniors would.
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Engineer Retained After Systems Issue: Company Culture Matters
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“I never would have hired you into a shop that would countenance [firing an engineer for a systems issue].” might be an almost verbatim quote from that discussion. The last I checked I think he was still a staff engineer there, some years after an incident that few remember.
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Professional Responsibility Culture in American Workforce
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And so I told him that he could absolutely put out of his mind any worry for me, because the culture that is the professional class in America would certainly not chain responsibility in that fashion. But more importantly, he shouldn’t be worried for himself either.
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Professional Responsibility and Cultural Accountability in Hiring
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(There are, indeed, some places in the world where one is perceived to vouch for people that one hires, and their failures are thus your failures. If you have long lived in one of those cultures, worrying your mistake was a career ender for me sounds natural.)
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Engineer’s Career Upgrade and Workplace Crisis Management Experience
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There is at least one engineer who I got hired into a particular company, in a major career upgrade. They perceived themselves as being at fault for an issue which seemed like a Big Deal at the time, and got in touch with me to apologize, because they assumed I was toast.
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Healthy Engineering Culture: Incident Postmortems and Psychological Safety
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Culture is a real thing in the world, and in a healthy engineering culture, someone not involved in immediate firefighting would take that engineer aside within minutes and say “You are probably worried for your job right now. Don’t be. Let me explain incident postmortems.”
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US Banks Language Support Gap in Digital Banking
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A day after praising Chase for having spend tens of billions of dollars to be able to put an in-app banner to First Republic clients I am reminded that many U.S. banks believe languages spoken in the world are English and Other.
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FinTech and AI Forum in Riyadh 2026
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Enterprise AI Solutions List Published Today
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Make sure to check-out our list of Enterprise AI solutions published today!