Readit Newsultra-boss commented on “Normal” engineers are the key to great teams spectrum.ieee.org/10x-eng... · Posted by u/jnord
"A truly great engineering organization is one where perfectly normal, workaday software engineers, with decent skills and an ordinary amount of expertise, can consistently move fast, ship code, respond to users, understand the systems they’ve built, and move the business forward a little bit more, day by day, week by week."
plus plus plus plus plus to this.
This book legit changed the things I notice as I move about the natural world. Couldn't recommend it more.
more of this kinda stuff, please! :)
ultra-boss commented on Close technical skills gaps with a principal learning engineer pluralsight.com/resources... · Posted by u/ultra-boss
Anybody have something like this at their company?
Who are you and what are you trying to sell me? :)
These days it feels a bit like another well known toxic field, finance, in that people conflate an outsized leverage for personal valor.
It's laudable to do your work well and go home to the rest of your life, and working "extreme" hours is both a bad policy and a bad sign that the system you're operating in is brittle. Nothing that we do is so unique that another competent engineer shouldn't be able to fill in for you when you are having an off day.
The effect of consistent, careful, workmanlike effort over time trumps any number of crunch weeks and burnout episodes, to an almost absurd degree.
The sooner the software engineering field can be rid of its beliefs about the inherent brilliance of programmers, the better for everyone involved. Inlcuding software engineers!