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As a developer, I hate being involved in sweeping generalizations about developers. I'd honestly, like those that I work with to understand and recognize me as
by hipsterelitist 17y ago
As a developer, I hate being involved in sweeping generalizations about developers.
I'd honestly, like those that I work with to understand and recognize me as an individual with tastes and needs that may or may not be like any other member in any other role in a project.
- SlowOnTheUptake 17y agoI think you speak for all of us.
- billybob 17y ago"You don't have to agree with me! You're all individuals!" "I'm not!"
- jacoblyles 17y agoI know I'm the only member of my generation that believes this, but movie quotation is not a satisfactory substitute for wit.
- rapind 17y agoDoesn't scale. I don't mean that negatively. I believe it's representative of the mindset. As to whether or not your company should be scaling, that's another matter.
- mapleoin 17y agoI see this as something that must be solved at the my-immediately-superior manager level. And when one of these managers has at most 10 people immediately underneath. I think that should scale.
- rapind 17y agoTheoretically sound. Manager's that get this probably don't come cheap.
- wanderr 17y agoSeems to scale pretty well for Google.
- andreyf 17y agoHuman language is full of figurative generalizations, and no author expects them to be taken literally (there are two in this sentence alone). What the author means to say is "It is commonly believed that X is generally a good motivator. While sometimes true, there exist some professions (ie. much of software development), for which the reality is more subtle, and Y actually motivates people better", where X is various rewards (ex. financial) and Y is different opportunities for autonomy, mastery, and purpose. But that wouldn't fit in a title, so you get a simple generalization, with the deduction of specifics assumed to be an exercise for the readers.