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Programmers Aren't Confrontational. F**k You!
- ChuckMcM 11y ago" I’ve worked at places where it’s prominent, and worked at places where it’s completely absent." You need to look no further than your manager and other senior leaders. Everyone will take their cues for behavior from those people. If they are confrontational, the people who work for them will be, if they aren't that way (and they call out as bad behavior such things) then the behavior won't be present.
- kazinator 11y agoHow the manager and senior leaders are could also be linked to a hiring bias tending to make everyone else that way.
- mcavaliere 11y agoGreat points, I agree 100%
- ChuckMcM 11y agoI think that is a big part of it, but I have also witnessed organizations change 'tone' when a new leader was installed. Perhaps the most diverse were the transitions of "VP of Engineering" at NetApp between 2001 and 2006. Different styles of leader, and different behaviors in the organization as a whole.
- loopbit 11y agoThere's an article I read a few years ago that I thought was spot on on why programmers tend to be seen as such: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2527153/it-management/opinion--the-unspoken-truth-about-managing-geeks.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2527153/it-management/o... Personally, I don't believe we are confrontational in general, but we respond badly to because-I-say-so situations.