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That's the main appeal of being a dev by far - they can't just hire an incompetent family member, no matter how much they want to. They do put them through the
by ohaideredevs 8y ago
That's the main appeal of being a dev by far - they can't just hire an incompetent family member, no matter how much they want to.
They do put them through the best schools and coding classes to hire them, but they still need.someone.competent.
- jedberg 8y agoNot really. They just need to hire someone competent to take work alongside the family member and take up the slack. Happens in all industries with a measurable work product. At one point my dad was doing finance for a 20ish person company, where five of the employees were family members. He said that they basically did nothing all day, but all collected paychecks. As the finance guy, he could see how their results were compared to everyone else.
- kibwen 8y agoSeconded. Seen more than one software company with departments named something like "R&D" that were used as a playground for executives' children where they could screw around all day and collect a wage, while once in a blue moon releasing some sort of press release composed of a meaningless soup of last year's buzzwords.