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I think it’s about perception. Broadly speaking, professions like Doctors and Lawyers are seen as prestigious and important, and so they are allowed to manage t
by Bukhmanizer 7y ago
I think it’s about perception. Broadly speaking, professions like Doctors and Lawyers are seen as prestigious and important, and so they are allowed to manage themselves.
I think software engineers tend to overestimate how prestigious and valuable people outside of tech think software engineers are.
I work in computational biology, and even in a fairly tech related field, you wouldn’t believe how many people think software engineering is just glorified IT. I’ve had a lot of conversations where the crux of it is “why should we pay them so much money, it’s the computers that are doing the work. Or, on building a distributed computation engine to run for 2 years straight without failing: “it’s all just grunt work we’ll just get an undergrad to do it”.
- tetraca 7y ago> why should we pay them so much money, it’s the computers that are doing the work. Why should we pay the blacksmith so much money? It's the armor doing all the work. Why should we pay the stone mason so much money? It's the arch that's doing all the work.
- Bukhmanizer 7y agoYes that’s essentially the problem. Engineers/developers aren’t seen as fundamentally making anything. They’re just seen as the interface to the computer.
- tetraca 7y agoIf you cheap out on your smith, good luck coming back without a hole in you.
- milesskorpen 7y agoDoctors operate with enormous amounts of regulation and overhead; I don't think they're allowed to really manage themselves as all.
- monocasa 7y agoOrganizations like the AMA are themselves run by doctors.