The Ecology of a Corporate IT Workplace
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#2Outlining the rich diversity of a typical corporate IT shop.
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#3Very tangentially, the "Snakeoil Salesman" reminded me of a candidate I once interviewed. For an hour and a half they showed a dozen codebases cloned off github, explaining basically what the README.md explained without actually saying anything of substance, while using a lot of trendy buzzwords. Whenever we tried to probe concrete details they'd immediately jump to another project. It was the most infuriating interview I did by far.
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#4Very tangentially, the "Snakeoil Salesman" reminded me of a candidate I once interviewed. For an hour and a half they showed a dozen codebases cloned off github, explaining basically what the README.md explained without actually saying anything of substance, while using a lot of trendy buzzwords. Whenever we tried to probe concrete details they'd immediately jump to another project. It was the most infuriating interv…
My previous boss would hire that person, and when unable to perform then promote them.
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#5I’ve never seen any of this, in my decades in this business.
I am more interested in why people write crap like this.
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#6Note how nobody actually does any work.