Software archaeology in its most literal form would be a fantastic course addition for anyone going into a company with a medium-large codebase > 5 years old. Especially if you end up at a FAANG or something akin to it.
Being able to navigate not just a codebase but bugs/tickets attached to it, discussions in documents, old wiki pages that half work, extracting context clues from versioning history, tracing people by the team they worked on at the time...digital detective work is a serious part of the job sometimes.
Being able to navigate not just a codebase but bugs/tickets attached to it, discussions in documents, old wiki pages that half work, extracting context clues from versioning history, tracing people by the team they worked on at the time...digital detective work is a serious part of the job sometimes.