ADHD and ADD have been rolled into one diagnosis: ADHD. There's Predominately Inattentive (PI) [which you might see as ADD] and Predominately Hyperactive-Impulsive (HI).
That’s not what they mean. ADHD is a legitimate and sometimes debilitating disability that involves significantly more than being distracted, and distraction is not even really the right word for ADHD
Did they account for the "usefulness" of the code produced.
In my company, one problem is that developers produce internal tools that do not correspond to what other employees need. It is even worse when developers are more distant from the users and don't socialize with them.
The "creativity" can increase, it does not mean that it is a good thing if they invent things that are not what people need.
Not sure I understand. My point is that "having devs being more creative" does not always mean it is a good thing. If the dev is creating more inventive code that solves what they incorrectly think is the problem while not solving the real problem, then it is a waste of time and money.
I'm sure that, obviously, the dev is convinced that their inventivity is genius and solves the problem. But we need someone else, impartial, to estimate if the amount of code is worth it.
I find it incredibly hard to believe a 2% debugging share in any scenario. Considering this is an ad post for Floustate, I have serious reservations about these numbers.
Oh, but if only you really knew what it was like to have ADHD. Try living in a world where you are constantly distracted whilst simultaneously having periods of intense hyperfocus. Add to that a lack of ability to see social cues and having to constantly second guess your behaviour, often well after the fact.
The last thing I did yesterday before leaving for the day was make my employee open a change record for the weekend. Why? Because between in-person and virtual interruptions I literally could not get my work done. Tomorrow, I'll make my employer pay CBRE hundreds of dollars for off-hour cooling so I can sit (hopefully) undisturbed and finish.
Nobody is winning in this scenario; I'm losing weekend time to play catch-up, my employer is spending money on AC that could have been saved if people took "no meeting Fridays" seriously, and "no meetings" needs to include teams, symphony, slack, whatever. Like having an office would be grand, but having solid time to concentrate and work is the real issue.
Meetings are still work, do you not have the ability to say "this feature is coming later than expected because last week I was inundated with meetings"?
Next year marks 20 years that I started to code for money. I've been working from home for about 5 or 6 years of those.
I'm in my mid 30's so this industry is all I've ever known, but if it ever shifts such that the expectation of being in an office is something I'd have to deal with, I'd literally change careers.
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The VP Eng would always say "I always try to remember it costs the company over a hundred dollars for me open one of these doors."
I learned so much from that boss.
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Just say "distraction."
This is my experience with ADHD - PI
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In my company, one problem is that developers produce internal tools that do not correspond to what other employees need. It is even worse when developers are more distant from the users and don't socialize with them.
The "creativity" can increase, it does not mean that it is a good thing if they invent things that are not what people need.
How do they measure that?
I'm sure that, obviously, the dev is convinced that their inventivity is genius and solves the problem. But we need someone else, impartial, to estimate if the amount of code is worth it.
Now tell me you have "second hand ADHD".
Nobody is winning in this scenario; I'm losing weekend time to play catch-up, my employer is spending money on AC that could have been saved if people took "no meeting Fridays" seriously, and "no meetings" needs to include teams, symphony, slack, whatever. Like having an office would be grand, but having solid time to concentrate and work is the real issue.
I'm in my mid 30's so this industry is all I've ever known, but if it ever shifts such that the expectation of being in an office is something I'd have to deal with, I'd literally change careers.