Study found corporate recruiters have a bias against ex-entrepreneurs

Post by RHSeeger » Thu, May 16, 2024, 4:32 PM UTC

darkhorse222 wrote: post #50

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> I just want likable people who will execute on my ideas (or the ideas I’m simply passing on from higher management), or with light discussion, even if the execution isn’t perfect. That sounds horrible. I want people working under/with me that will question the work, that will try to figure out if it's the right work. It is common for decisions "from higher management" to be made without a real in-depth knowledge of…

Bruh we are slave to the machine. Most of us want to get in, get our paycheck, let the boss feel smart, and go back to our actual lives. Programmers tend to overinflate the influence of their job in their personal lives.

I try to do a good job at everything I do. Some things to a larger extent than others (being a spouse/parent gets more effort than being a developer), but I still _try_ to do a good job on the smaller things too.

Post by RHSeeger » Thu, May 16, 2024, 4:37 PM UTC

cqqxo4zV46cp wrote: post #52

RHSeeger wrote: post #11

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> I just want likable people who will execute on my ideas (or the ideas I’m simply passing on from higher management), or with light discussion, even if the execution isn’t perfect. That sounds horrible. I want people working under/with me that will question the work, that will try to figure out if it's the right work. It is common for decisions "from higher management" to be made without a real in-depth knowledge of…

That sounds lovely riiight up until you’re in a position where one of your reports gets very inconveniently standoffish when they’re tasked with something that has been pre-determined, has been decided for complex workflow management , political, legal, etc reasons. I am a big believer in developers working with sufficient context, but the reality is that when an org gets to a certain size, everyone can’t have full v…

> That sounds lovely riiight up until you’re in a position where one of your reports gets very inconveniently standoffish when they’re tasked with something that has been pre-determined, has been decided for complex workflow management , political, legal, etc reasons.

There is a very big difference between

1. I expect my worker to do as their told and not question it.

and

2. I expect my worker to use their analytic ability to make sure our plans are reasonable, and let me know when they're not. But sometimes, even knowing the issues they point out, I have to tell them to move forward with it anyways, because . And the need to be able to understand that sometimes we don't make the decisions.

A developer that can't help understand the various possible choices to be made is... less useful.

A developer that can't understand that they don't always get to make the final call is... less useful.

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