How to tell your boss that he's a bad programmer? [closed]
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How to tell your boss that his programming style is really bad?
There was a question about the boss having a bad programming style (weird booleans, empty loops, etc.) Having a bad/weird style does not imply being a bad programmer, but my situation is different.
My boss outputs some really nasty code for the project, on which we are working together (just two of us). Examples:
- functions that span over several screens (big screens - 1900 x 1200)
- Deeply nested Conditional and Loop statements (up to 10 levels!!)
- Too much static variables, singletons, and both (singleton class with all the methods and members also static)
- Sometimes the code committed to the version control system does not even compile!
- Copy-Paste code instead of separating it into an independent function.
- Fail all the deadlines.
- "This's [C#|Java|Python] it shouldn't be efficient, that's why we loop all over the haystack to find the needle."
- "This's C/C++, it's fast enough to loop all over the haystack to find the needle."
There is much more to mention... But the worst is that I have to redo much of the stuff he does, my code, which I try to keep clean is often polluted with above-mentioned atrocities.
He's reaching 30 soon, so all his skills are established, and I don't even know if it's possible to change something.
I like the project, but sometimes I just want to quit...
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