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The biggest card this article palms is by starting out talking about tech companies, and then switching into a survey that's not primarily about tech companies:
by mkozlows 11y ago
The biggest card this article palms is by starting out talking about tech companies, and then switching into a survey that's not primarily about tech companies: "A survey last year of 5,000 such workers at both tech and non-tech firms... found that many of them feel alienated, trapped, underappreciated and otherwise discombobulated."
Because, sure, if you're the person who does Crystal Reports at Bob's House of Widgets, or the VB person at Gary's Lawncare, or even (to some extent) one of the J2EE horde at MegaBankCorp, you're in a place where you're not core to the business, you're viewed as a cost center, you have a limited career path, and the main people at the company probably have you lumped in with HR and Accounting.
But I really, really, really doubt you're going to find that same sense of alienation, underappreciation, etc. at a tech company.
- jfb 11y agoBut I really, really, really doubt you're going to find that same sense of alienation, underappreciation, etc. at a tech company. How many tech companies have you worked at?
- ionforce 11y agoWhat are you trying to imply?
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- marktangotango 11y agoI think the implication is, tech company or not, there's a huge gulf between cost center and profit center with regard to how management treats you.
- jfb 11y agoIn my experience, having worked at many "tech companies" as well as "square-job companies", there is no great difference in how software engineering types are treated.
- Tuxer 11y agoI work in tech in the silicon valley. That's just untrue. There is a sense of alienation in being a small cog in a huge company shipping millions of devices, churning through code to get data from one point to another hoping that it'll make a difference to customers and that that feature isn't just another PR gizmo.
- randycupertino 11y agolol... you don't think engineers are viewed as a cost center? Because they are.