Computer Programming - What's it Like?
David Every has a little rant about software engineering as a career:
Many can't get over the stupidity, and go job to job looking for utopia; or at least the fictitious job where complete incompetence is not the norm. Those looking for where the grass is greener are usually continually amazed that things can, and do, get worse from their previous jobs. I have people from many different companies whine about how their management sucks worse than anyone else's; then someone tells them stories about places they've worked or decisions that are made, and there's silence while they process that. Four programmers around a table can quickly devolve into a game of, "my management is more stupid than yours". The sad thing about human nature is that you cannot over-estimate how low it can go. Sadder still is this is in America, one of the most effective and productive nations in the world; many foreign countries have even more bureaucracy, hierarchy and stupidity.
posted Tue 15 Jul 2003 in /software/management | link
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