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It's the typical big corporation superficial vision of a trend. Just like when an ad tries to appeal to youngsters: it always looks ridiculous to the target. Th
by sametmax 8y ago
It's the typical big corporation superficial vision of a trend. Just like when an ad tries to appeal to youngsters: it always looks ridiculous to the target. They use what they think is cool, instead of what actually is because they don't care about understanding anything, they just want to pretend they do.
The corporate equivalent are agile methods with plenty of tooling but no direct communication with the client, open spaces yet still 100 layers of hierarchy, empowerement that means more responsability and no leverage, and the usual "we have plenty of cool looking equipment except what you actually need to get the work done".
I don't want a dual screen and 16Gb of RAM because I feel cool with it. I do because I'm paid $800/day and wasting time with something that can be solved for a few hundred dollars is just bad economics.
- yeutterg 8y ago> empowerement that means more responsibility and no leverage Wow, that so succinctly summarizes how I've felt at more than one workplace
- z3t4 8y agoSpend 1000$ on a biljards table, save 100,000$ in recruitment cost, and yet another 10 million in salary cost as you will get only new grads, just hope some of them can actually code. Then outsource everything that is technically challenging.
- izzydata 8y agoWhat is the point in having the college grads then?
- shadofx 8y agoTo find out what parts are technically challenging.
- mixmastamyk 8y agoTo keep out the riff-raff and unwashed masses. "We hire only the best!"
- 0xfeba 8y ago> The corporate equivalent are agile methods with plenty of tooling but no direct communication with the client, open spaces yet still 100 layers of hierarchy, empowerement that means more responsability and no leverage, and the usual "we have plenty of cool looking equipment except what you actually need to get the work done". Very well put.