Stop Hiring Software Engineers
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Stop Hiring Software Engineers
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#2TIL that I am a product engineer. I identify very strongly with many of the points made in this article.
But I have to say I’m disappointed in the conclusion about hiring. Early in the article it teases that PEs are “easily identifiable” in the interview process. But the final conclusion is to just ask general problem solving questions and not require specific language expertise, which I’d argue most companies are already doing. Consider the classic FAANG interview - general problem solving, interviewee picks the language.
Would have loved to see this part fleshed out more because I agree with the general premise of the article and also think there are real ways to identify PEs at the interview stage.
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#3Yes, but, no. As in, I agree that you generally don't want senior devs who don't think at a level higher than the code level.
But I really hate trying to label this "product engineer".
Stop trying to make "fetch" happen.
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#4I took the clickbait, and found an article that renamed Product Manager to Product Engineer.
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#5I couldn’t help slipping into reading this in the voice of David Attenborough. “If you look in under the jungle canopy you just might catch a glimpse of the elusive product engineer. Festooned with their hoodie and mechanical keyboard. What a rare and magnificent find!“
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#6I took the clickbait, and found an article that renamed Product Manager to Product Engineer.
I don’t think you read the article then. It’s definitely a little clickbaity but at no point did it describe a PM
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#7I took the clickbait, and found an article that renamed Product Manager to Product Engineer.
I would say that it is more about identifying product "quickwin": Small technical feature who solve huge fonctional problem.
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#8So, the author suggests to look out for a specific trait in programmers. To care about the essence of what they actually work on. I agree but why the need for the terminology
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#9Now I might be out of the loop, but this -is- a software engineer if they're doing it right, right?
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#10> if (text.trim().length() And then they released the product in Japan and got complaints that there were a whole lot of special requests that were being ignored (because you can encode far more information in those two characters)
Maybe you do need a software engineer after all?