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This level of attention to detail, perfection, and craftsmanship is found largely at bigger companies with more to lose with their products. Automakers, manufac
by DanFeldman 10y ago
This level of attention to detail, perfection, and craftsmanship is found largely at bigger companies with more to lose with their products. Automakers, manufacturing, aerospace. When I worked at GM, this sort of thinking was necessary at every step. Perfection and correctness was written into every process.
Also, about 40% of the engineers in my group were female (active safety/autonomous vehicles. We solved awesome problems, but moved slowly to do it right. Maybe the author should look at companies whose markets demand less iteration and more safety.
"You get there first, making waves while I sit in last place and watch." There are companies out there that do not subscribe to this thinking!
- thesimpsons1022 10y ago>> Perfection and correctness was written into every process. you say that but the industries you mentioned have some of the worst code possible.
- DanFeldman 10y agoI agree on their code quality/their coding practices are bad, but that doesn't matter for this context. They (GM) are not software companies, so they don't set out to write amazing, clean, modular code. This isn't about writing great code, it's about the culture surrounding release.