I've spent 5 weeks working with our offshore sysadmins to get Python3 installed on a dev box. Its a 30 second job, does anyone in a startup have these problems? Big banks suck right now.
- I was never able to get email search in outlook enabled on my computer. It was a "security risk".
- Every Monday, my Visual Studio install broke and I'd have to call support in Bangalore to reinstall it.
- Our "make" system's subtasks would segfault every 1/3 times so I always ran it 3 times, sometimes 4.
- The only way to commit code (after using an out of date CVS) was to use this second in-house utility manually on every commit revision on every file. The asshole who wrote that thing made MD.
- Our 32bit system would run out of memory and take hours to compile because Java talked to C# talked to C++ talked to Slang talked to javascript all in the same address space.
And because our customers know us as being agile, there's a huge double standard to all of it. We can request changes, or even write all the code for them and send it, but won't see it live for 3-12 months. Even for critical bugs. However, when they request anything for our services, features require like a 1 month deadline from conception to deployment, and critical bugs is something like 72 hours.
A little ranty because 2016 for me was more like 90% "dealing with enterprise", 10% freedom. Thankfully next month I'm being switched to a team dealing more with internal services, so there's a lot less BS (because my boss says he's noticed how stressed it has made me, so that's nice).
I did some work for a startup that required me to integrate with an external API. The API had a bug that the service provider didn't fix despite many requests over a period of about 6 months. We had to switch to a different provider and reimplement a lot of code using a their API instead. So, yes.
But the really sad thing is: Startups in the financial sector suck even more. Mt. Gox is just one of the many screw-ups there.