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Android dev here.
Been working on this team for one year now. Greatest collaborators I've ever worked with. Feels like we're all working off of the same brain. But this is not about my team. Parallel to ours, there's the iOS team. And if I said they're disfunctional, that'd still be underselling it.

They're atleast 2 sprints behind android on the same features, the junior devs are trying their best to sync up and code their way. But the senior guy has a stick up his bum or something. Keeps shooting down prs left and right. The iOS guys come up to me (I'm the only one in office, rest of android is at a different site) asking for logic changes or UI changes and the like. Although I do have some iOS experience, I can't really get involved, because it's a different codebase and team. Feels very much like office politics.

I feel sorry for the team. Really makes you grateful to have good team members. Any advise I could give them would be welcome.

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  • 5
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    That's a nice story, but bit respectful. Could use some more hate and anger :P What really goes through you when you see the iOS guys? Don't you just want to pick up your k120 keyboard and smash them on instant? :) And who's next? :)
  • 3
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    That’s very nice of you.
    As for advice, if the team is shit, I don’t think there is anything that you can do about it :/
  • 4
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    @retoor imagine you are some poor bastard in a shit team, struggling with life, trying to survive.
    Then one day, someone from the other team, the good team, is running towards you, raging and smashing a keyboard into your face. Spits on you and runs off to someone else.
  • 3
    2d
    @Lensflare typical iOS dev comment; Android developers are sophisticated so they don't spit and won't hit you in the face because HR would see it. Android developers always go straight for the genitalia and in case of @retoor they will use a mechanical keyboard or ThinkPad just to be sure. The little ones are tuff. But HR uses iOS and actually know what you did. Also, they won't hit your eyes so you can watch how your personal intern gets beaten up as well. They let him eat his iPhone.

    I dunno, if I would be an iOS dev, I would start from the bottom and regularly clean the offices of the android devs until they see in my eyes that I want to betray my eco system until they slowly trust me enough to run an android emulator. From there, I would work my way up.
  • 2
    2d
    I guess senior guy needs to loosen up?
  • 2
    2d
    @whimsical that’s… dark 😅
  • 3
    2d
    @Lensflare I have my moments :) Which part was the darkest?
  • 2
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    @whimsical I dunno. It’s just everything together.
  • 3
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    @Lensflare > 'Then one day, someone from the other team, the good team, is running towards you, raging and smashing a keyboard into your face. Spits on you and runs off to someone else.'

    ...The Postal Dude?

    /jk
  • 3
    2d
    OT: Probably the best thing to do would be to get a bit involved to see what's actually going on. Either the iOS senior is unnecessarily uptight, or the fault lies w/ the juniors... or it's somewhere in between.

    - Maybe you can get a look at the PRs, see why they're being rejected etc.

    - Maybe check out some of their processes?

    ...then again, 'meddling' w/ their affairs may be seen by some as overstepping, so who knows. Tough situation.
  • 2
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    @D-4got10-01 or it's just ios and xcode being the problem.
  • 1
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    @whimsical in my company usually the ios teams are a few sprints ahead of android and are the ones with the least technical and social problems :)
  • 2
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    @Lensflare are you sure about the social part? :p It's so hard to believe :p
  • 2
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    @whimsical yup, I often hear stories from project managers/scrum masters who wonder why ios devs are always so nice and easy to work with, compared to others.

    Why is that hard to believe?
  • 3
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    @Lensflare I don't want to get personal :p

    J/K flarii.
  • 2
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    @whimsical ain't I the nicest person in the world that you have interacted with? 🙃
  • 3
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    @Lensflare the nicest person that vouches for apple products on this platform :p
  • 2
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    @whimsical wait… there are others?
  • 3
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    @Lensflare no, this is a serious software development platform :p So they went to reddit :p
  • 1
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    @whimsical > '@D-4got10-01 or it's just ios and xcode being the problem.'

    Oh yes... that's definitely a possibility, too.
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