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Introduction Recently, I watched a video by YouTuber ThePrimeTime which details a dev’s frustrations with business culture. Prime is an ex-entrepreneur who currently works in software development at Netflix. His views in this video have been criticised for being jaded by FAANG business cultures he has worked in. I personally don’t feel this way. Although there is some truth to the developer’s (mataroa’s) article, I think it misses the root causes of many issues raised. I have mixed feelings about the article in question. Some areas I agreed with and others I disagreed with. However I did want to address one particular concern / statement: I work on a platform that cost my organization an eye-watering sum of money to produce, over the span of two years, and the engineers responsible for it elected to use spreadsheets to control the infrastructure, so we now have a spreadsheet with 400 separate worksheets that powers but one part of this whole shambling mess. I’m speculating he ....