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Our current head architect is proud that he doesn't know any technical stuff. He has developers for that.

by hyperman1 6y ago

snapetom 6y ago
Ugh. Being proud of not knowing things, in any field or subject, is not a virtue.
lowbloodsugar 6y ago
Why do you still work there?
- hyperman1 6y ago
  I'm going to try to answer that, even if only for myself. Partially, because the organization is a lot bigger than 1 man. I'm working close to my home in a company that respects work/life balance. Pay is reasonably good, especially as i don't have a multi-hour commute anymore. I wont be fired from one day to the next. I'm pretty sure the organization is all in all doing good work helping people forward. There are a lot of people with great technical and other expertise. Also good, nice, solid people. My work is appreciated. I have a good amount of freedom. There are enough layers of management that I don't have to deal much with the architects. And the weird thing is, it is working with him as head architect. He is the kind of person that can sell anything to anyone, even turning around people that were disgusted of him a few months before. I'm pretty sure he makes technological choices by reading Garner slides and doesn't really understand what they are or what the results will be. Even so, he manages to get things moving and agreement built in a very complex organization. He causes change, others give that change a usefull direction, and the net result is, well, usefull results. Strange but true.
  - snapetom 6y ago
    All good reasons to like your job and very understandable. However, it sounds like your architect is more of project manager than an architect.
  - phorkyas82 6y ago
    That even partly fits to something the article alludes to, and maybe should have been stated more explicitly: that it's about communication: so getting the people talk to each other and be motivated and try to solve a problem in a specific, commonly agreed way - that is more important than the used technology (which can be overhyped crap)
greeniron 6y ago
i don't think this is the message you're trying to convey, but seriously i'm reading so many stories in this post about how non-technical people can get into these (presumably) high-paying architect jobs where they are not expected to do any coding... how do i apply for those jobs? i have 2 degrees, business and computer science, but i hate coding. so far, the most value i could have leveraged out of my CS degree without having to do coding is working as a technical project manager, but i know architects get paid WAY more. how do i find those jobs?
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- nogabebop23 6y ago
  Way to strive for the prize.
  - greeniron 6y ago
    is there something wrong with my approach? i'm a hard worker, i just want to be paid the maximum i can get for my work that's all.

Our current head architect is proud that he doesn't know any technical stuff. He has developers for that.

snapetom 6y ago

Ugh. Being proud of not knowing things, in any field or subject, is not a virtue.

lowbloodsugar 6y ago

Why do you still work there?

hyperman1 6y ago
I'm going to try to answer that, even if only for myself. Partially, because the organization is a lot bigger than 1 man. I'm working close to my home in a company that respects work/life balance. Pay is reasonably good, especially as i don't have a multi-hour commute anymore. I wont be fired from one day to the next. I'm pretty sure the organization is all in all doing good work helping people forward. There are a lot of people with great technical and other expertise. Also good, nice, solid people. My work is appreciated. I have a good amount of freedom. There are enough layers of management that I don't have to deal much with the architects. And the weird thing is, it is working with him as head architect. He is the kind of person that can sell anything to anyone, even turning around people that were disgusted of him a few months before. I'm pretty sure he makes technological choices by reading Garner slides and doesn't really understand what they are or what the results will be. Even so, he manages to get things moving and agreement built in a very complex organization. He causes change, others give that change a usefull direction, and the net result is, well, usefull results. Strange but true.
- snapetom 6y ago
  All good reasons to like your job and very understandable. However, it sounds like your architect is more of project manager than an architect.
- phorkyas82 6y ago
  That even partly fits to something the article alludes to, and maybe should have been stated more explicitly: that it's about communication: so getting the people talk to each other and be motivated and try to solve a problem in a specific, commonly agreed way - that is more important than the used technology (which can be overhyped crap)

greeniron 6y ago

i don't think this is the message you're trying to convey, but seriously i'm reading so many stories in this post about how non-technical people can get into these (presumably) high-paying architect jobs where they are not expected to do any coding... how do i apply for those jobs? i have 2 degrees, business and computer science, but i hate coding. so far, the most value i could have leveraged out of my CS degree without having to do coding is working as a technical project manager, but i know architects get paid WAY more. how do i find those jobs?

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nogabebop23 6y ago
Way to strive for the prize.
- greeniron 6y ago
  is there something wrong with my approach? i'm a hard worker, i just want to be paid the maximum i can get for my work that's all.