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I get why some places would want to test your programming skills, I mean, google does a lot of 80's style invention talked about in the article. But for 90% of
by eksemplar 10y ago
I get why some places would want to test your programming skills, I mean, google does a lot of 80's style invention talked about in the article. But for 90% of programming jobs, you're better off with a gaffatape programmer who brings social skills as well as business understanding.
Especially outside of full software companies, the ability to evaluate business processes as well as digitizing them is simply invaluable, and you'll almost never need to write your own x anyway.
- adrianratnapala 10y agoI'd say that skill set is useful for the 10% of jobs where programmers are pretty close to being their own managers. Really it is better if "product owners" (or whatever) could actually do their job and talk to clients to distil out requirements that are clear and achievable. After that, the kind of programmer right for the job depends on, well, the job.
- PeterisP 10y agoWhat clients? The vast majority of programmers and programming quantity happens in in-house functions in non-tech companies. There's no "product owners", there are business functions that need changes to their internal mess of stuff, so they hire programmers for that.
- adrianratnapala 10y agoBut then it still depends on the size of that in-house programming organisation. If it is just a few guys, then the team lead needs to take on those roles as well as code. If it is larger, then there should be some specialisation and professionalism in the non-coding roles.