Developer Stigma After a Bad Or Catastrophic Release?

An anonymous reader writes "We hear in the news all the time about how executives can drive a company into the ground and yet somehow become more desirable to other big companies. What we don't hear about are the grunts who implemented those decisions, and whether or not they end up resume-stained or blacklisted. Since we've got so many developers with lots of time in the trenches, I thought I would appeal to their experience. When disaster looms and sales starts pushing for development that has little chance but to end in disaster, what happens to the programmer who decides he needs his job enough to follow orders? Have they ever become unhireable?"

Comments

Re:Don't Worry!

[westlake]

I'm sure Windows 7 developers will still be employable after the October release.

In the W3Schools stats the Win 7 RC has half the desktop share of Linux.

Re:In my experience, no.

[Kjella]

Sseriously, even in the worst of times there are businesses that are growing. Those that do are well aware of the situation and know that in this market they can hire high quality workers at reasonable prices, even the kind of employees no sane employer would normally lay off that they'd normally have to headhunt with huge paychecks. So yeah, many people are in the "nod, smile and say yes if offered a job" mode you shouldn't assume it's that way for everyone.