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This hits home for me pretty hard. Honestly reading it felt kinda therapeutic as I still occasionally have bad dreams from a previous company (ideas being shot
by jxm262 9y ago
This hits home for me pretty hard. Honestly reading it felt kinda therapeutic as I still occasionally have bad dreams from a previous company (ideas being shot down, trying to fit into an existing team, etc..).
especially this comment -
> Existing teams have established relationships, and are easy to offend collectively
https://medium.com/@prajjwalsin/this-sort-of-thing-can-even-stem-from-social-discord-and-it-might-not-even-make-it-to-the-manager-e513337bfeaf https://medium.com/@prajjwalsin/this-sort-of-thing-can-even-...
Fwiw, there are companies/teams who act quite the opposite of this article (encourage ideas..). I've been part of many of them and it's something I try to look for now.
- andai 9y agoIt just occurred to me that, for people high in trait Openness (creativity, appreciation for ideas) it might be a good idea to figure out ASAP (eg, during initial interview) if the company is really open to new ideas or if they just they are.
- jxm262 9y agoAgreed. I try to ask kind of open questions during the interview process - I see you're doing this task with 'x' technology, have you considered using 'y'? Sometimes you'll get good responses back along the lines of why they picked the tools, but express an openness to make different choices if you can help them figure it out. Honestly I'd love to hear ways to actually interview the interviewers on things like this. I feel most of the material I read talks about how to interview candidates, but there's not much about the other way around (how to assess the company you're interviewing with?)