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"Just being associated with a failed system can taint careers and diminish prospects of any employee when applying for a new job" "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
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If you interview for a position outside of your company, then how does anyone know if any of your projects were failures? I've never had a failed project and I've never had a bad manager!
modified 17-May-18 0:21am.
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- Your resume lists a company known for failures.
- Your resume lists a project that is a known failure.
- You post information from either of the above on social network sites.
- You answer questions honestly about prior work
Consider yourself blessed for not having bad managers and/or employers
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Obviously, you don't recognize sarcasm.
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Be careful, failed sarcasm can hurt your career.
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 The trolls are in the trough today. Maybe time for a vacation!
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Funny thing is I just got back from vacation and hadn't been to CP for several weeks. I think I'll take a few more until the sun comes out.
modified 17-May-18 0:22am.
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Maybe I didn't; or maybe I recognize that the next generation of people think they are infallible...
Either way... The very first programming project I was thrown at was at a company that was building a website for another; basically a rewrite of eBay for a company wanting to make a million dollars in the collectible coin and numismatics (paper currency) realm. Project was quoted at 60 hrs. Did get it finished off in slightly over 600
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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As I've said before, the most valuable knowledge isn't knowing what to do, but knowing what not to do.
Besides, given how many projects fail due to management, I don't blame the developer. Unless they are too blame (which, unless they are psychopaths, it usually obvious in an interview.)
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I was involved in a project that was considered a failure and resulted in several executives losing their job over it. That failure had no discernible effect on anyone else's career that I know of. That is, it's failure didn't. It had a big effect on several of my former colleagues with most leaving that company for bigger and better things or, in some cases, just different things.
FWIW, that project was the world's first fully automated monolithic disk drive assembly system, at least to the best our knowledge it was. What I mean by that is, we fed it disks, cases, heads, positioners, and screws and it assembled everything and a drive came out the other end. It was a very expensive lesson that a lot of people learned quite a bit from. Enough that it hasn't been tried again since, as far as I know. It was for a company that no longer exists and I was working for a different company that also no longer exists. That was in the era before 5.25 drives got to 1GB and prior to any 3.5 inch HDs. Back then drives cost serious money.
Today disk drives are assembled in a modular way. One system typically performs only one or two steps of the assembly process and usually that system is just a single machine with little integration between the different machines. In other words, drives are built on "islands of automation" and moved between them, much like many other products are today. Of course, that varies by manufacturer and even between the different plants of some manufacturers.
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That would be a very lazy recruiter, recruiting on assumptions. I'd call him out and influence his/her career 
Having seen multiple fails, I can safely say that they are valuable learning-moments. If you haven't seen anything go wrong ever, you have not worked ever. That's a safe bet
It is also quite valuable to see these trainwrecks coming before they happen, so you can give the client a choice. That farmer is likely to ignore the robin, but at least he has been warned about the rain.
"I told you so, I told you so, I told you so" 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Nvidia researchers have developed a new AI technology that can reconstruct holes or intentionally removed content from images. What about thumb removal?
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Microsoft developers working on Windows 8 created a puzzle and embedded it in the wallpapers used for internal builds of the operating system. "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead"
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Gmail is usually pretty good about filtering unwanted spam messages, but a number of users reported earlier today that their inboxes were suddenly flooded with ads that were apparently sent from their own accounts. And here I thought I had $30million for myself
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A loud sound emitted by a fire alarm system has destroyed the hard drives of a Swedish data center, downing Nasdaq operations across Northern Europe.
The incident took place in the early hours of Wednesday, April 19, and was caused by a gas-based fire alarm system that are typically deployed in data centers because of their ability to put out fires without destroying non-burnt equipment.
These systems work by releasing inert gas at high speeds, a mechanism usually accompanied by a loud whistle-like sound. With non-calibrated systems, this sound can get very loud, a big no-no in data centers, where loud sounds are known to affect performance, shut down, or even destroy hard drives.
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One of the poorest-kept secrets in Silicon Valley has been the huge salaries and bonuses that experts in artificial intelligence can command. "A fool and his money are soon parted"
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Germany's supreme court has dismissed a landmark case brought by a publisher looking to destroy ad-blocking services in the country. I'd hate to think I was breaking the law (breaking the law. Duh DUH)
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Facebook has taken the lion's share of scrutiny from Congress and the media about data-handling practices that allow savvy marketers and political agents to target specific audiences, but it's far from alone. Search them.
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Did the job offer give you a title of "data scientist" but the work is more like data scullerymaid? Oh, dear, you fell for a shiny bauble of a job description! Here’s how to identify when the job description doesn’t match the job duties. That's when I learned that 'lead developer' has nothing to do with plumbing fixtures
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Okay, though overly long, article with, ironically, an error in the title: it's not about job titles but job descriptions.
I "love" the "must be a self-starter" job description, only to end up working for a micro-manager.
It's not always negative. For my current job, I was hired to write an embedded controller. By noon the first day, that project was cancelled and I took over a graphically intense client application. It's been fun, though, and my current project has long-term potential the original project simply didn't have. I also have more control over the [new] project that I expected on day two.
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We’re currently planning our next major .NET releases and would love to hear your feedback on how you interact with .NET Framework and .NET Core today. Tell them what they want to hear, and you might just get it
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Make C# capable of doing this please!
Hi Compiler.
Create a web application for my startup.
What does it do? Analyzes data.
Thanks;
Thanks MS!
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Ah! Reminds me of someone who advocated use of "Plain English" programming here at Code Project many years ago. Can't google it now - it's probably purged.
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I guess fixing bugs in System.Drawing/GDI+ isn't sexy?
Wout
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You know the two-factor authentication tokens, the ephemeral, six-digit numbers you use as a second layer of security when logging into, say, your email? They're all written in the same factory as fortune cookie fortunes!
935545 - in bed!
Hilarity!
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