The Code of War [PDF]

What Will You Get From This Book?
Maybe you’ll ignore the satirical nature of the book, embrace your inner asshole, and use the advice inside to climb the corporate ladder. Maybe you’ll recognize someone’s ill behaviour after you read a certain chapter and realize that something around you needs to change.

While I definitely don’t condone doing the former, people in the IT industry that act in that manner certainly exist. If they didn’t, I wouldn’t have the inspiration for this book. I hope this text sheds some light on the unethical methods certain people in our industry use. That way, we can all learn how to avoid them and do better.

At the end of every chapter, you'll find a small note regarding the real-life person that the chapter was based on. All the names, of course, are changed. Likewise, some real-life situations are combined, but that's the extent of the freedom I took while writing the notes.

While the book was written with the IT industry in mind, its chapters could be applied to the whole tech industry. Therefore, I purposely avoided using and IT-specific terms and kept things more casual. In the end, it should be an easy read. It shouldn't read like a programming manual.

PS. I hope you'll at least get a few laughs out of it!