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Discussion on: Is it good or bad practice to make developers pay money for his bugs?

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Nick Karnik

I've never heard of money been collected. What I have seen happen is the dev been held responsible in a few ways:

  1. Publicly shamed within a larger meeting and/or put on a wall of shame for the week/month

  2. Developer's review and bonus were affected significantly

  3. The developer was put on pager duty to wake up in the middle of the night and handle live-site issues.

  4. Places like Amazon make every developer responsible for their own features and are put on pager duty for their feature

I don't think any company should be collecting money from their employees for bugs.

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Camilo Martinez

I have never seen this practice as company rule or politic, I think would be something illegal retain salary money. It's more like team's agreement.

But after read your answer, I prefer collect money than this first item, it's scary.