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What is your goal with the coding events? These things have more to do with motivation, innovation, and team-bonding but very little bearing on quality of emplo
by president 7y ago
What is your goal with the coding events? These things have more to do with motivation, innovation, and team-bonding but very little bearing on quality of employee code culture. Also, the most productive engineers will not want to waste valuable time on these types of events.
The only genuine way to foster a software engineering culture is to hire proven and experienced software veterans as leaders in your engineering organization. And when I say proven and experienced, I don't mean people that are just good at LeetCode. Remember, culture always comes top-down and the best coding culture is a result of good mentoring and calling out bad coding practices before it spreads like a virus.
- incognitotech 7y agoMy goal was to start something and make people know each other around drinks and some interesting stuff like conference videos, latest news (react hooks / suspense at the time, Spring related, Functional Programming, ...). Really just to start something because teams are isolated and don't speak that much to each others. When something is not working it's always another team fault for example. I think you're right regarding the hiring process, ours is just "soso", we would definitely need more software veterans. We have some but not so many and even with events/meetings/chapters where we make decisions about code review/best practices and so on, but not enough seniors to actually enforce this in each team and keep an eye on it.