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From top of my head: * Noisy Open Offices. * The notion that real devs stay in office at least till 19:00 * Clueless technical staff. Hodgepodge of Scala, Ja
by FlyingSnake 11y ago
From top of my head:
* Noisy Open Offices.
* The notion that real devs stay in office at least till 19:00
* Clueless technical staff. Hodgepodge of Scala, Java, Clojure, Groovy running on microservices/Docker/Hadoop/WhatsThatCurrentFad
* Below market salaries. There was an uproar in Zalando open house that some Sr. Devs are paid less than Jr. Devs.
* Interns as underpaid minions. One Rocket company even had the interns do the dirty dishes, clean kitchen and check on toilets.
- adventured 11y agoI'm confused. Are you claiming that they copied paying below market salaries and having clueless technical staff from Silicon Valley? I honestly wasn't aware that clueless technical staff was a common plight in SV (such that someone like Rocket would emulate it). That some developers or companies get caught up in fads, certainly wouldn't inherently indicate that they're clueless. Maybe I'm behind the times on this. Is Silicon Valley now regarded as being filled full of low quality / clueless engineers? And what location has replaced SV as the best in the world?
- FlyingSnake 11y agoWhat I meant is that they try to copy latest technological fad from SV and try to implement it half-assedly. They see Microservices/Golang/React trending on HN and try to do it by using underpaid engineers. SV is and will be a leader in technology for a foreseeable future.