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You kind of described a highly disfunctional company, where you as a senior sw engineer literally had the power and authority to choose who would get promoted a
by mk89 7y ago
You kind of described a highly disfunctional company, where you as a senior sw engineer literally had the power and authority to choose who would get promoted and who wouldn't.
- rurban 7y agoNo, I never talked with my manager about anything I talked with my juniors. I only advised my juniors how to deal best with managers, but mostly we talked about code. It was a highly functional company until they changed the dev manager, then it went downhill immediately. Political middle managers soon took over everything, and all the seniors left.
- JAT123 7y agoI think what he is saying is not particularly uncommon. Several of the orgs I have worked at have expectation that a senior developer will help juniors, whether that's formalized as a line management and 1 to 1s or informal mentoring. Tbh expecting to be a senior developer and not give any time towards leveling up the next generation of software practitioners is both selfish and short sighted.