As Red Gate grows bigger, I’m concerned that the culture will change. Some change is inevitable but I’m keen that it changes in a good way rather than develop into a corporate dystopia. In software companies a them and us mentality often develops. The development team view the marketing team as woolly-thinking powerpoint bunnies; the support team think the developers are arrogant nerds; the developers and testers fight battles over trivial points. Nothing ever ships. And when it does, it doesn’t work. And everybody blames everybody else. We’re trying to prevent this happening at Red Gate in several ways.
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