Not a movie but I feel like Mr Robot had somewhat accurate scenes
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And silicon valley
Someone watching Silicon Valley could be forgiven for coming away with the impression that most software developers spend 90% of their time screwing around waiting for solutions to unexpected bullshit interruptions...
So yeah, pretty accurate.
Some grad included unecessary libraries held over from them dorking around on a testbed that cost the company $40,000 and blew the code out tenfold
I absolutely hate project managers. In my almost decade of IT work, every PM I've ever dealt with was garbage. They have no idea what is going on, and then ask an ass load of questions at the end of the meeting about things that were already covered. Useless.
As if, I, the programmer, will open a ticket for anything. Thats your job tester. Thats jour job PM. Im not putting this fire and I dont care if the company goes under because of it.
Project Zero Dawn but it's funded by VCs
Some people like happy movies, some like action movies or horror movies even!
I like frustrating movies.
I think the Pentagon Wars is about as close as it gets for now. Not about programming of course but all about company bureaucracy and feature creep
It's definitely satire, but I feel Silicon Valley did a decent job. Yes they absolutely made things up, but it was more about the backend and pushing updates and servers being erased because someone accidentally sat a drink on a keyboard.
In an interview about silicon valley the creators said they interviewed a lot of people in the industry and had to actually cut out a bunch of stuff because it wouldn't be believable by people outside the industry. One small example was the valuation. The VC people they talked to said pied piper would have gotten a lot more money than what ended up being in the show
Yeah, you can definitely tell the show was filtered through the lense of "what will the average person understand". I just appreciated the focus on actually building something vs just seeing the business side of it.
Black Mirrors Hated in the Nation makes fun of this briefly iirc