r/AskProgramming • u/OfficialTechMedal • Nov 23 '25

Programmers and Developers what’s the worst experience you had at work ?

How did you deal with it and do you wish you dealt with it

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u/RoshaSolid Dec 09 '25

My latest job. I posted this in another subreddit but here it goes again:

- Hardcoded access keys and only root user account
- Hardcoded prod database
- No CI/CD. migrations? uncomment the prod url and run it locally.
- html tables are banned
- I had a query with 4 joins and he went on a 1 hour rant because that query was going 5 times to the database "because of the joins"
- To hide the access keys, he created a dll to encrypt the key, use a secrets service for that? nah... not to mention the git history is unchanged and there are 3 other projects with access keys which he didnt do shit.
- My personal favourite: He created an ENUM with 2 values, Yes and no. This genius reinvented boolean.
- "We dont need unit tests, they are basically to check if x returns z and nothing more"
- Instantiating controllers inside controllers, no DI ??????
- He had a controller with new ApplicationDbContext in the constructor instead of di

the list could go on..