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Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun. On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.
Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun. On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.
Aw man we are pretty much all devs here, didn't mean it to come across like that :(
But I said what I said because I work in the agency and in my opinion we have created an atmosphere that is not working towards our advantage.
* Designers are expected to present their work in advance and the best team will win
* Developers are often considered as coders only and their input is not valued, even after they have solved an impossible taks
This kind of self-deprecating humor does not help and I'm pretty sure you would not see managers and sales people putting themselves in this situation, because it will not help in their jobs.
This is marketing spam and doesn't belong on HN.
I didn't submit this link but I'm from this agency. Fair enough if you think it is, but we thought you might be interested in the tech at the bottom and the way we hacked some toy shock lighters to produce this!
Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun. On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.
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Aw man we are pretty much all devs here, didn't mean it to come across like that :(
Hey, I like the idea from marketing and tech side, kudos on that :) But I said what I said because I work in the agency and in my opinion we have created an atmosphere that is not working towards our advantage. * Designers are expected to present their work in advance and the best team will win * Developers are often considered as coders only and their input is not valued, even after they have solved an impossible ta…
Our own MD is hooked up too, as is the designer. We don't have that divide here everyone's opinion is as important as the next.
Seriously? Giving people electric shocks for fun? I don't even wanna try that...