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His point was that you can be more open and easy going with junior employees. Letting an ambitious programmer lead a project of his own is pretty low risk.
by staunch 16y ago
His point was that you can be more open and easy going with junior employees. Letting an ambitious programmer lead a project of his own is pretty low risk.
- notauser 16y agoThere's also much more room for creating opportunity for one person without removing it for someone else. In a business there's usually only one spot for a COO, but you can have many senior developers. Therefore the stakes are lower, because other members of staff don't see an opportunity vanishing when a promotion to senior dev is announced.
- copper 16y agoHm, where's vgr when you need him :) His Office posts tend to nail this particular point of the story nicely.