Dear CTO: it's not 2015 anymore
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Dear CTO: it's not 2015 anymore
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#5Software ate the world. Meditate on this and the points this article is making becomes clear.
Big tech no longer needs to hoard talent.
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#6> They coddle rather than manage
At one of the gigs I had, the VP of Engineering was running the engineering department like your good uncle rather than actually managing it so it becomes a well oiled high performing department. And it showed. And not in a good way. It set the company back badly.
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#7“Engineers” here mean software engineers. Or the author thinks this culture pervades all engineering disciplines - which is not the case.
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#8This is a re-run of the end of the first dot-com boom where the rest of the organisation got some payback against the pampered and coddled engineers who built the web sites in between foosball games. Except this time around when your engineers are able to create agents, what do you need the rest of the organisation for. Software is eating the world, and it's only just getting started.
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#9It is crazy the genuine anger that some senior leadership has over the tiniest most inconsequential perks like beer, ping pong tables, work flexibility, and not getting micromanaged to death. They worked their ass off getting up at 4am something something grind corporate ladder to get to play golf and go to sports games as work expenses and these entitled 20-somethings show up expecting to not get treated like shit and not have to kiss ass so hard it qualifies as a rimjob to get ahead? The audacity! It's unreal the amount of I suffered so you should have to as well.
It's so depressing how much leverage the SW engineering field needed to get treatment like how everyone should have always had it. The default is so skewed to employers being able to grind their employees to dust and getting thanked for it. Companies should be constantly worried about retention across all their positions and have to treat their employees well because of it.
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#10"Engineers have been spoiled rotten for the last two decades[...] employers offered unlimited PTO"
In what world does unlimited PTO spoil engineers? It removes the companies liability for vacation days and shames employees into taking less time off.