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I've seen companies go on hiring sprees just prior to being acquired, which I don't fully understand. I guess the company tries to puff itself up to fetch a larger asking price? Gu…

Pushing back, standing up for yourself, not being a doormat. All this is key to being treated with respect. The problem is that today, we've got a perfect storm. Developers do tend…

Sometimes it's a matter of hygiene and humane working conditions. You might be surprised at the amount of codebases that are just the equivalent of working in filth. If your worksp…

The quote from this article that really hit home for me, was this: "Coding is generally a team sport. If you’re hacking away on your own then you can do what you want, but when we’…

The folks in charge who don't want the foot soldiers to have any agency at all, they call it Shadow IT

Well said. Typically in year two your job has more than doubled in the workload and responsibility that you're asked to carry. Which makes the line chart even worse. Pay is flat bu…

Sounds like Darwin award material. But seriously, those who can't survive the sea change of digital onslaught are eliminated from gene pool. Do the evolution.

Correct. What's best for the long term health of the business is not taken into consideration. The Board of Directors and the CEO only care about this quarter and this year, why wo…

I wonder how much wfh and distributed teams change this dynamic. I totally get what you're saying with the whole experience of staying in the office after dark, ordering pizza, and…

"larger group of developers" is the phrase that caught my attention. Humans don't scale well. This is where microservices do become attractive. This service is owned by a small tea…

Just commentary on the engineer turned manager narrative. Please forgive if it is out of place. Should I delete it?

Warning ... cynical, pessimistic viewpoint coming. Here is a pattern that I've observed over a few jobs that I've held as a developer at different companies. Wondering if anyone ha…

Agreed. The market for super snappy user experience seems to be underserved. Maybe not enough demand? Or maybe a symptom of the "everything is free and paid for with advertising" m…

I agree. I've used Octopus to automate deployments of internal LOB crud apps in the insurance space for a few years now. My questions is, is it still aimed at .NET? I know it leans…

Privacy deprivation. It's cruel.

I've been doing the same. I even tell recruiters and interviewers "if I was unemployed, you'd be getting a very different version of me". It adds more fuel to the notion of why emp…

Manager of what? Some things require skill, some things don't. Low skill trades can be transformed into paint-by-numbers processes. High skill trades cannot be so easily encoded in…

Isn't this really an incentive problem? I find it hard to believe that snoopware will foster a high trust environment.

Every job in corporate land has the person, at every level, who makes you ask "how is this person still here?"

I don't know. But I do know that the way to prevent that is to handcuff all the developers with crushing process heaviness. Then they won't introduce anything malicious, because th…

huh. who'd of guessed that coal miners can't code?

Template zombies, as coined by Mark Schwartz in the book "A seat at the table". Managers who think that they can turn everything into a template, and then hire monkeys to take thos…

Can't one be ambitious about not getting overworked?

If someone has figured out how to measure developer productivity, they're positioned to win a Nobel prize or something. I have yet to see it done. That's why butts in seats is the …

see relevant post from 2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15740926