People Operations built an interview scorecard

“We'll add backups later.”— Sarah, People Operations

Reason:

Honestly? Because the correct dropdown option is "Other". Presented in a town hall as "innovation".

Built by:

Sarah, a warehouse supervisor

Build time:

12 minutes

Built with:

MongoDB, because the schema was 'still evolving'

Database:

a Git repository with one JSON file per customer

Authentication:

backups are encrypted with the same password as production

Deployment:

deployed into production because staging was broken

Responsible:

an intern's old manager's manager

Documentation:

a Confluence page whose screenshots are all out of date

Security situation:

the certificate expired 411 days ago

Future disaster:

It will silently stop syncing and nobody will notice for 8 months.

Age: 1.8 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 1 owner so far · survived 1 reorganisation · last meaningful change 210 days ago · original builder left 177 days ago

Rated rare mostly because: 5 departments depend on it, 2 accidental connections, 32 users.