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Awesome and relevance aren't always aligned. Some days, we do something awesome in the office (laser cut a table from aluminum sheet, or print hundreds of digits of \pi directly onto a storebought pie [0] for example), and everyone around says "Whoa! That's awesome!". At the end of the day, though, we're physicists, and we need to ship some physics out the door. [0] http://guavaduck.com/laser/
If a sales guy can't set up a meeting with an awesome prospect his first week on the job (set it up, not necessarily get around to having it), chances are he's not a great sales guy.
If a process-oriented manager can't find some stupid process and short-circuit it her first month on the job, what is she good for?
This standard isn't as crazy as it first sounds. What worries me more is the pompous tone of the whole thing.
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Also, I'd hope that any organization that abides by this rule goes all-in on the Rule of Awesome, which in its original form is the a tabletop RPG principle to the effect of "Anything sufficiently awesome is automatically allowed." :)
(Compare Rule of Funny, Rule of Cool.)
Call me jaded...
Manager, if you require "awesome", you will get "awesome", but it will be tailored to you and won't surpass your intellect or vision.
It's a rare client with whom I spend more than 2 days a year. At my rates, if they didn't think I did awesome stuff, they surely wouldn't (re)hire me. If a sales guy can't set up a meeting with an awesome prospect his first week on the job (set it up, not necessarily get around to having it), chances are he's not a great sales guy. If a process-oriented manager can't find some stupid process and short-circuit it her…
> If we are hiring you because you are awesome, then you have 30 days to do something awesome. And awesome is simply defined as me (or your supervisor) thinking to him/herself, “man, that's awesome!” just once. "You have 30 days to do something awesome"? Really? Well, how about you stuffing your job offer you know where? Professionals, including trained Computer Science and IT professionals, demand professional respe…
By the way, what was it that makes you or your company so entitled to think you can judge me? Did you guys ship a awesome product or made a pretty penny or invent something fundamental in Computer Science?
So much is this depends on your "awesome" level. Personally I'd be hard-pressed to think of anything anyone on the planet has done this year that is awesome. Or at least that I've heard. A couple of my friends done "pretty excellent" things involving either cooking or overcoming fears in the last year but not a single thing in this past year has filled me with awe. Call me jaded...
30 days to do something awesome, and then...?
Until they're left with The Most Interesting Developer In The World.
> If we are hiring you because you are awesome, then you have 30 days to do something awesome. And awesome is simply defined as me (or your supervisor) thinking to him/herself, “man, that's awesome!” just once. "You have 30 days to do something awesome"? Really? Well, how about you stuffing your job offer you know where? Professionals, including trained Computer Science and IT professionals, demand professional respe…
I might be wrong, but I would like to think everyone getting a new job has something in them to do something awesome. Well anyone with a decent amount of experience anyway. A fresh set of eyes and no history is all it takes a lot of the time. I am not sure this makes someone really awesome though.
If we are hiring you because you are awesome, then you have 30 days to do something awesome. And awesome is simply defined as me (or your supervisor) thinking to him/herself, “man, that's awesome!” just once.
that's putting people off.