Hacker News Reader

How were they spying? Help people learn from this incident.

I'm not really sure. As a said in another comment. They normally took weeks to respond to code/tech issues. For some reason this random code edit was run up to the CEO within minutes of it being made.

The CI/CD was on github actions. IDK if there is a standard spy tool there.

> There was some shared code base with the other company. One of our devs made a comment that was something like "Reversing Migration Script" in the code.

That isn't spying. That is called doing code review on a shared depenendcy

Do you normally report your code reviews to the CEO in minutes of getting them? Didn't think so. Think what you like though.

This company normally took weeks to respond for any other code related issue. I would describe them as passive aggressively slow.

Maybe they really did review everything spot on and just deliberately slow rolled approval to "manage expectations" on the day to day.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com