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I'm throwing out a generalization, but developers tend to have destructive personality traits when it comes to collaboration. I've never seen mentorship discour
by tropshop 9y ago
I'm throwing out a generalization, but developers tend to have destructive personality traits when it comes to collaboration. I've never seen mentorship discouraged for those who work well with other people. It can level up a team and compound productivity. If you are seen as easily triggered or judgemental, your manager is wise to limit your interactions, since you can still be a productive individual contributor.
- busterarm 9y agoI've seen it... Honestly though, I see it more in specific developer communities than others. The "headphones on all day, don't speak to me, no meetings, no I won't explain my code review/feature request/JIRA ticket/etc" folks are specifically who I'm referring to. I've found it pretty rare at non-Rails Ruby jobs -- they're generally very collaborative teams. I'd probably start a flame war if I mentioned where I have seen it fairly consistently though.
- pjmlp 9y agoI never got how that mentality survives, in the majority of companies where I worked that would be a pretty bad evaluation score in soft skills area.
- mywittyname 9y agoThey get stuff done. Maybe you're a collaborative person so you get put on teams where that's more highly weighted. I'm more of a "don't talk to me / I hate meetings" developer; I get excellent evaluations, but I almost always work independently and the groups I work with quickly pick up on my temperament. I will say that I'm certain I'd be shown the door if I didn't have a track record of going off into the Batcave for a few months and coming back with cool products.
- busterarm 9y ago"We need 10x developers"