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Is this a fucking joke? Then again, not surprised garbage like this being upvoted on here.
The writing is poor (by native speaker standards; again, I think it's safe to chalk that up to not being a native speaker of English) but he's intelligent and way more honest (corporate jobs truly suck, and idiots are far too often in charge) than 99.99% of white-collar workers have the courage to be.
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Most people don't realize Dilbert isn't an exaggeration until they join the workforce.
You are so right!! You do not realize it until it hits you. When I was in my last job, reading Dilbert almost felt like it was happening to me. Dark sarcasm..
Warsaw software developers' job market has gotten really interesting since Google opened an engineering center here some umpteen months ago. There is just no reason to stick to crappy jobs at this time. Edit: OTOH, this is no reason to go with a bang - releasing some pressure is just not worth it.
What makes you think Google is better?
Google pays decently, but the work isn't interesting unless you have social access. Being in an Eastern European satellite office, you're not going to get the machine learning work. You're going to get the stuff that California, Seattle and New York don't want to do.
I'm sure there are Polish companies that offer real work; OP would do better at one of those than in some multinational's branch office. The problem is that most corporations are still pretty colonial and you don't get high-quality work unless you're in the main office.
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Most people don't realize Dilbert isn't an exaggeration until they join the workforce.
You are so right!! You do not realize it until it hits you. When I was in my last job, reading Dilbert almost felt like it was happening to me. Dark sarcasm..
I have a question as a user to devs: Do you consider fixing code a bad job, as he did? The Net is filled with complaints about things that require fixing in lots of software that's been around a while. Yet it never seems to get done. Is this more because dev hate to fix old code by someone else -- what in the book world would be termed an editor's function -- or is this the nature of the corporate beast, to just keep…
Hunting for an elusive hard to fix bug might be very satisfying. You get to know the environment, you might have to construct custom tools to gather data for the debugging purposes and you obviously get the bragging rights if you succeed.
Most bugs are not that challenging though. A textbox is too small to display a value, shoveling of records from point A to point B loses some data fields, this kind of stuff. You basically know right from the start what kind of fix is required and the only challenge is finding the place in the (potentially messy) code where the fix needs to be applied.
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No one said it isn't hard to manage or managers in general are idiots. I was just clarifying that the decline of decent software practices isn't a scale issue, it's management issues. That tends to be because of non-technical managers/superiors.
I don't think it's a matter of non-technicality. You can find non-technical founders who are doing more or less well (Squidoo, Yammer, Groupon for example) and there's a lot of companies managed by engineers which are falling. I think it's a matter of lacking general management skills as well as number and level of complexity of problems you have to solve when you go up.
But you definitely need be somebody who gets the job done in whatever their area of expertise is. Those are the kind of people you quoted in your example.
There are somethings you can't teach a person. They have to learn by doing or go through the grind.
The only reason I'll never work for a "big" company again: Clearcase If the job involves this tool, I won't even apply. (Yes, there are some other bad tools as well)
Back when I worked in research, I was in a small (at most 100 people) research institute in Germany; and I was working in a EU project.
Each month, I had to log what I did every hour in 3 different, independent and non-compatible (i.e., it was hard for me to automate the process... and believe me, I tried) places:
1. An excel sheet required by the European Union office in charge of overseeing the project: Log not only the time you spent in the project (doing what for each hour? wp1, wp2, etc.; or admin) but also hours completely unrelated to the project (teaching, other projects, etc).
2. A stupid program called Profiskal. One of those programs made in Java which are made with the feet.
3. Some internal web platform.
It's not a question of scale, it's a question of management. Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots. Pure and simple. Suit wearing, non-technical morons. Congratulations on your new job, exercise, fresh air and freshly picked berries and vegetables. Sounds pretty decent compared to sitting in front of a screen slaving for knock-off phones with shitty vendored junk. Seeing the company you work fo…
Every time (~5/month) I hear the "managers are idiots" rant I start to wonder, how is it possible that all the smart people: 1. aren't managers. 2. aren't able to convince the "idiots". I'm also curious why smart people become idiots when they're promoted. Come on. Managing is hard and definitely looks different depending on your position. To make it even more "funny" I can tell you that "employees are idiots" is a f…
It's not a question of scale, it's a question of management. Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots. Pure and simple. Suit wearing, non-technical morons. Congratulations on your new job, exercise, fresh air and freshly picked berries and vegetables. Sounds pretty decent compared to sitting in front of a screen slaving for knock-off phones with shitty vendored junk. Seeing the company you work fo…
Every time (~5/month) I hear the "managers are idiots" rant I start to wonder, how is it possible that all the smart people: 1. aren't managers. 2. aren't able to convince the "idiots". I'm also curious why smart people become idiots when they're promoted. Come on. Managing is hard and definitely looks different depending on your position. To make it even more "funny" I can tell you that "employees are idiots" is a f…
This can leave you in the awkward situation where the person in a higher position within the organization is not as intelligent as his employees. But given limited resources, as most companies are subject to, it may be the optimal structure for an organization, despite whatever "Dilbert" moments come out of it.