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You know, I heard this claim about "architects" and "high level engineers" before, but I've never seen much evidence for it in real life. How many of these det
by dunpeal 8y ago
You know, I heard this claim about "architects" and "high level engineers" before, but I've never seen much evidence for it in real life.
How many of these detached astronaut "architects" actually exist?
The only real-life example I ever became personally familiar with: academics who were parachuted to some quasi engineering leadership positions thanks to their impressive publication credentials.
I wouldn't call these folks "engineers" of any level. They are scientists who head teams that employ engineers.
- UK-Al05 8y agoI defently been at places where the architects define tbr boundary of a microservice, or the api contracts rather actually implement it.
- dunpeal 8y agoBut do you know for a fact these "architects" forgot how to code, and would bomb an engineering interview?
- wallflower 8y agoI once walked into a really sharp architect’s office and asked him how it was going. He shrugged and showed me what he was working on: task scheduling in Microsoft Project. He hadn’t coded a line in months. It is not necessarily that the architects don’t know how to code but more lack of opportunities to do so, as they increasingly become a human API between the engineering team and management and execs. Meetings all day, some of them of low value.
- dunpeal 8y ago> He shrugged and showed me what he was working on: task scheduling in Microsoft Project. Right, that's not an "architect" then. That's a manager of some sort.