There's only one rock star, Ajay Bhatt. Proof below.
What developers think when you say "Rock Star"
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#22always seems strange to me when a company publishes such a subjective post.
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#23Rock Star = I get to fix the problems, all the race conditions and exceptions and bugs that the RS developer didn't do a good job on. Rock Star = He looked more productive than he actually was.
Rock Star = someone who may code well, but they're a pain in the ass to deal with (we used to call them prima donnas)
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#24A Microsoft recruiter told me I was a rockstar after an internship interview in 2001. It felt awesome at the time. But now it sounds like a dated way to recruit 19 year olds.
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#25If by rock star, you mean someone that parties all night, comes in late and hungover, has weird contractual demands, and trashes hotel rooms on business trips, then yes, I guess I'm a rock star. When do I start?
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#26When a company asks for a rock star developer, I think pretty much this:
> "Rock star" signals that you haven't thought enough about the role this developer will fill, leaving developers with a feeling that they'll be receiving ill-defined requirements, not enough time, or not enough resources to do their job (in addition to being overworked and underpaid).
Or more specifically, they really need 5 people to do this work, but they only plan to get 1.
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#27Rock Star = I get to fix the problems, all the race conditions and exceptions and bugs that the RS developer didn't do a good job on. Rock Star = He looked more productive than he actually was.
Couldn't agree more with the first statement but add to that unmaintainable mess and spaghetti code
Rock Star = praised, promoted, highly visible, and in management's view infallible.
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#28Why are software developers segmented between "rock stars" and "not rock stars"? A salary estimate search on Simply Hired for "rockstar accountant" yielded no results :-)
It's in the Mythical Man Month, not that Brooks uses the term 'rock star'
Good developers are 10x more productive than average developers.
There are no comparable studies for accountants.
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#29If by rock star, you mean someone that parties all night, comes in late and hungover, has weird contractual demands, and trashes hotel rooms on business trips, then yes, I guess I'm a rock star. When do I start?
I agree with you that to me "rock star" always connoted "bratty prima donna" to me.
I would point out that the weird contractual demands are often canaries meant to uncover a venue that has not read the contract closely enough to guarantee the safety of all performers and the audience. The famous example, of course, is Van Halen and the brown M&Ms:
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#30What I think of when I hear "Rock Star Programmers"? I think how most musicians, signed to a major label , who perform as "rock stars" still get a net zero payoff after two years. I think how if programming degenerated to the level of music or motion pictures, the average programmer would labor for nearly nothing in a start-up "hoping to be discovered" while handful got a fake buy-outs with no long term money and a m…
> if programming degenerated to the level of music or motion pictures, the average programmer would labor for nearly nothing in a start-up "hoping to be discovered"
Welcome to the source of my startup skepticism.