Computer Engineer with 16+ years of experience, focused on backend engineering for the past 7 years in adtech & gaming; besides that, I have expertise developing mobile videogames, web, geographic information systems, multimedia & network systems programming.
This other day I was interviewing with a recruiter for a Go dev position, then she asked "what is a map?", couldn't believe such a basic question was being asked, proceeded to explain, then asked her why such a basic question; she said most applicants couldn't tell her what a map was (shock face).
Next question was "what is a hash table?", even more shock...
I'm a Computer Engineer who started to program when I was 12 in a 286.
Probably mostly companies stuck with long-term contracts.
The global company I work at uses it, they have an enterprise-wide contract. Migrating to something else is just a massive PITA, extra costs & sure downtime.
Mexican here, in my country these type of "evidences" are harder to support / enforce, as long as your lawyer / you are willing to provide enough scientific indication they're not reliable, those evidences are dismissed.
Of course, as any country, there's corruption at every level.
Hard to tell, I would guess most large well-established companies have situations / teams like this.
I work for a large videogame company, things are more or less the same, except we have two clear modes of operation among teams:
* "production" (gameteams themselves), work in frantic mode all the time (crunch time being very common)
* all other teams, work in glacial mode, technical debt is pretty high, same as your situation
When I started, it was my dream job. Years later...
Quite difficult to find a dream job and maintain that state of mind for long.
I would suggest you speak to your manager(s) and find / create some new projects, be creative and proactive.
Or, your current job may not really make you happy and you'll need to find something else to do.
It's not a signing code, votes are truly anonymous; it's the unique serial of the physical card and one of the various citizen IDs used in the country.
These numbers are typically abused in mass fraud for government monetary/physical goods assistance programs.