It's hard for those who came into the discipline in the past twenty years to realize just how much things have changed around version control and building.
Joel Spolsky released the "Joel Test" for determining if the software team you were interviewing had good practices in 2000. One of the requirements was that they used version control. Not all that many teams actually did. Especially during the dotcom craze.
Today, passing the Joel Test is table stakes, and it's the rare shop that doesn't. But it took years for that sort of thing to become ubiquitous.
Joel Spolsky released the "Joel Test" for determining if the software team you were interviewing had good practices in 2000. One of the requirements was that they used version control. Not all that many teams actually did. Especially during the dotcom craze.
Today, passing the Joel Test is table stakes, and it's the rare shop that doesn't. But it took years for that sort of thing to become ubiquitous.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...