That's why you get jobs at the consultancy that has to clean up those messes after companies are burnt enough. Most companies that get burnt will feel the reputation damage and go for reputable ones with integrity who respect push back.

Usually you're not selling work on a feature by feature basis. It's usually on huge projects or multi year deals.

[–] fx242@lemmy.world 3 points 41 minutes ago

Companies don't remember or learn. People come and go and after a software lifecycle everything is forgotten as the top management gets refreshed.

[–] arendjr@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That’s why you should go work at big corporate enterprises. Then you have both job security as well as the ability to spend as much time as necessary on getting things right. And you might even learn to say no to middle management.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 8 minutes ago

Aw do they also hand out unicorns for Xmas?

Some corporations do that, most don't even if they're trying to, because incompetence.