Don't underestimate the absolutely jaw-dropping incompetence from even senior "tech" folks employed by governments.
Within the last couple years, I've overheard senior, so-called technical government employees 1) complain about Git and wonder aloud why we weren't using Visual Source Safe; 2) insist that rotating through a list of 12 hard-coded passwords, in code, checked into Git, was totally fine; 3) refuse to believe that automated deployments were possible (not hard, or against norms, but physically impossible); 4) try to explain to another so-called technical gov't employee the difference between CSS and JavaScript, and get it wrong; 5) stand up in the middle of a conversation and walk out the door because it's 2:30 PM and their day is over; 6) even more nonsense you wouldn't believe if I showed you a video of it.
I would hope Federal is a little better than State, but I'm not convinced.
Within the last couple years, I've overheard senior, so-called technical government employees 1) complain about Git and wonder aloud why we weren't using Visual Source Safe; 2) insist that rotating through a list of 12 hard-coded passwords, in code, checked into Git, was totally fine; 3) refuse to believe that automated deployments were possible (not hard, or against norms, but physically impossible); 4) try to explain to another so-called technical gov't employee the difference between CSS and JavaScript, and get it wrong; 5) stand up in the middle of a conversation and walk out the door because it's 2:30 PM and their day is over; 6) even more nonsense you wouldn't believe if I showed you a video of it.
I would hope Federal is a little better than State, but I'm not convinced.