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That has been exactly my experience as well. There exist job places where "the requirements is in his head" is considered normal and in order and there is too m
by colund 11y ago
That has been exactly my experience as well. There exist job places where "the requirements is in his head" is considered normal and in order and there is too much respect given to such "job security" selfish aes who never share things voluntarily.
As contrast, at an earlier work place there were "mentors" introducing newcomers to the domain holding introductory crash courses and doing code reviews. I understand why so many job posts here in Sweden stress the importance of knowledge sharing for common (not individual) success. Sharing knowledge means that more people can share the burden - not the other way around.
- r2dnb 11y agoAmen. I think the reason people are afraid of sharing is that very few people practice continuous learning. They keep using what they learned 5, 10, 20 years ago, therefore - to their mind - if they share it, they are left with nothing. I don't mind sharing as I read like crazy, learn new things all the time, and improve my way of doings things so that I do and understand things much better than I did 5 years ago.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoMost domain knowledge in one corporation has zero value outside that corporation . There's too much path dependence. And the older the learning, generally the more general it is. There are a million ways to do everything, but a team will have Stockholm Syndrome with how it does things, generally.