Developer Alignment Quiz

Are you an embodiment of Vishnu? Do you work better on mature products or at the bleeding edge? Find out with my totally unscientific quiz. Some of this might only make sense if you've read the book, but don't let that hold you back.

Question One

It’s release day. An issue has arisen with the build system, and you’re the only one who can fix it. Do you:

Take this as a clear signal to invest in tweaking the build pipeline, then knuckle down and fix the build for the greater good.

Back away. It’s clearly somebody else’s problem and you’ve got code to write.

Investigate the problem for a few minutes, conclude that it’s a symptom of the underlying insanity of whoever put this thing together, and then spend the next two weeks creating a new build system from scratch.