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> Also, if you want to be a PM then you'd better enjoy meetings, slides, people, and communicating & convincing all day long, day-in day-out. Leave me in my ro
by muxator 9y ago
> Also, if you want to be a PM then you'd better enjoy meetings, slides, people, and communicating & convincing all day long, day-in day-out.
Leave me in my room with my beloved keyboard! I can sense other likely-minded beings over the wire. No slides, no meetings, no politics. Only the austerity of code, measurements, technical merit.
- danielblazevski 9y agoNo meetings, no politics? Lots a dev jobs have both don’t they, especially as you become more senior and/or want to drive change in how things are done.
- oblio 9y agoIt depends on what you want. If you want some sort of "purity of code", that's great. If you want more (especially control), you'll never have it. Except for your side projects.
- bitL 9y agoTechnical co-founder with controlling equity is the role you meant, not side projects. Like most co-founders of big tech companies nowadays.
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- dasil003 9y agoFounders of big tech companies deal with politics on a level you can’t imagine.
- bitwize 9y agoAsin actual, literal politics. As in, appearing before Congress to convince them why what's good for your company is good for America. And/or sending campaign contributions their way to help with the convincing. But there's a lot of fun to be had between now and then.
- matte_black 9y agoDon’t get carried away, most startups never rise to that level, even fairly big ones.
- goodroot 9y agoSuch a vision is a fallacy.