Reading this article feels like seeing somebody you don't particularly like get pantsed, but feeling bad for them because the person pantsing them is an even bigger idiot. Like Monster is not in tech. In any regard. I'm sure that they contract for 100% of their development.

I do dev & IT for a <25 person company in ecommerce. If we had even half of the issues that were pointed out in this post, I'd be telling the owner that he should be looking to replace me. I get that they're not a software company, but these are super basic issues. These issues, coupled with no response to the reported issues, leads me to suspect that the c-suite deprioritized IT to the point that it's a skeleton staff and they can't hire or retain anyone that's even halfway competent. You don't end up with these kind of issues, as a company of their size, unless there are serious management problems. They are big enough that they should definitely have the budget to do basic stuff like auth properly, or at least not make so many 101-level errors.

That said, the author also comes across as a complete d-bag as well. I have about as much love for marketing people as the average software developer, but their description of their average consumer was pretty normal. The author got super-catty about what's a fairly basic description of their average consumer and a stock photo. They aren't saying the only people who drink monster are young white males, just that that is their largest market and the consumer group they are targeting. It does make sense for them to say internally "hey, FYI this is the group of consumers we intend to target with our marketing efforts", and I've definitely read very similar stuff in every marketing proposal I've read, just with different groups.

I wouldn't be surprised if their lack of any response is because they literally have noone to deal with this. They can't seem to fill (or hold) some pretty important IT roles:

https://recruiting2.ultipro.com/MON1009MECY/JobBoard/682eaab...

You remember "software is going to eat the world?"

_Everyone_ organisation is a tech organisation.

Totally still on Monster even if they contract 101% of their IT.

It's like watching the school bully pants the weird kid who's just really passionate about his interests. It's not tough or cool, really it's just pathetic and sad.

This is what happens when you contract out your development. Huge companies are going to FAFO as they continue to do pursue this foolishness.

I first learned of bobdahacker from his post three weeks ago also headlined on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44723773