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I understand that by family you mean to have a good and strong relationship between teammates, which I approve. But my experience with family-like teams is that

by Seb-C 6y ago

I understand that by family you mean to have a good and strong relationship between teammates, which I approve. But my experience with family-like teams is that you end up with managers that act like they were you father/mother and you an immature child whose every request is a whim. Pretending that everyone is a friend is not necessarily good either because straightening a friend is much more harder than a colleague, so you end up not taking the right decisions by fear of frustrating and losing your friend. I agree with rimliu for those reasons. Coworker relationships have to be different than family or friends, but that does not mean being inhuman or disrespectful, and it is not incompatible with a good and fun ambiance.

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
Well, I apologize for using the word "family." I guess it's loaded. You are correct. It is a different type of relationship. In my experience, I had two primary goals: 1) The corporate strategy and tactical direction. 2) The productivity, cost-efficiency, well-being, and cohesiveness of the team. My stuff came after that. In any case, you're determined to find fault with my experience and outlook. I get that. I am quite aware that my approach is orthogonal to "industry standard," and that makes people uncomfortable. No problem. We'll probably never work together, which may actually be sad. I'm a pretty decent person to work with. I wouldn't be surprised if you were, as well.
ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
BTW: I enjoyed looking at your code. It shows a clean, disciplined, quality approach. I'm big on having an open portfolio. I think that it is a really important component in interviews. I think an almost perfect interview, is for the prospect to supply some projects, and the interviewer then asks them about their submissions. Like for me, since I do device control and communication software, a good discussion might be around the patterns that I use to synchronize local model with the server state (spoiler: I use what I call my "staged model" pattern, which I'm considering farming out into another one of my general-purpose SDKs).

by Seb-C 6y ago

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago

Well, I apologize for using the word "family." I guess it's loaded. You are correct. It is a different type of relationship. In my experience, I had two primary goals: 1) The corporate strategy and tactical direction. 2) The productivity, cost-efficiency, well-being, and cohesiveness of the team. My stuff came after that. In any case, you're determined to find fault with my experience and outlook. I get that. I am quite aware that my approach is orthogonal to "industry standard," and that makes people uncomfortable. No problem. We'll probably never work together, which may actually be sad. I'm a pretty decent person to work with. I wouldn't be surprised if you were, as well.

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago

BTW: I enjoyed looking at your code. It shows a clean, disciplined, quality approach. I'm big on having an open portfolio. I think that it is a really important component in interviews. I think an almost perfect interview, is for the prospect to supply some projects, and the interviewer then asks them about their submissions. Like for me, since I do device control and communication software, a good discussion might be around the patterns that I use to synchronize local model with the server state (spoiler: I use what I call my "staged model" pattern, which I'm considering farming out into another one of my general-purpose SDKs).