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syzible
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I own a start up with two friends of mine - one is great with business, and the other tries to be both a developer and on the business side. I'm fully on development and I find it extremely frustrating to work with him. He copies and pastes code, doesn't understand it, and worse still will never admit it and digs himself in deeper into the hole he's dug. He doesn't code as a hobby and it's purely just assignments in university that he spends any coding time on. I've tried helping him to improve over the past few months, but nothing seems to ever do anything as there's no desire to solve problems - just really dollar signs in his eyes is probably the only reason he's in computer engineering. Recently we got a contract with an organisation to make an extremely simple app for android and iOS as the first stage of their planned development. As I did the most of the work on another project during the summer (while juggling a job with another company as an internship), I asked if he could take this so he can try to improve and equalise work so he does his share. Not only did it take 3 weeks, but it's shoddy as hell and looks like it was done in the space of an hour. In reality it took days for him. It's unbearable! The android code I saw was clearly just copied from various sources and mashed together - there was no planning, no understanding of abstractions, and was legit a giant class or two with extreme amounts of redundancy. Hell, he even asked me for help for trying to implement fragments when I pointed out that making screens with buttons and such will be extremely difficult if he is only passing in strings. Any of you guys experiences something like this before? I'm planning on bailing in the coming weeks once my exams are over with for university as it's becoming unbearable.

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  • 0
    Is the other friend in agreement with you?
  • 0
    @jirehstudios yep, we both said to give him a chance with this, but this is where things get messy. This guy is the CEO.
  • 1
    @syzible shoot, I was going to say that majority rules. You can always threaten him that you will both leave if he doesn't get his act together.
  • 0
    Tell him that you'll both quit unless he takes a code class
  • 6
    I'd say there's nothing to do. He's not even close to being a professional dev, and his attitude shows that he's no good at CEOing either.
    Spare yourself struggles and pain, quit and make your own startup (if that's what you want to do)
  • 0
    Threatening won't help, it will ruin your relationship between all three of you.
    You may want to sit down with the three of you and tell him to choose. Coding or business.

    Also ask him what you assumed, his reason why he wants to code; money or passion.

    Money won't improve him, passion will. He will have to give 100%.
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