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What Silicon Valley “Gets” about Engineers That Traditional Companies Do Not
- codingdave 6y agoI've had the most autonomy when working in large, traditional companies. In my stints in energy and banking, I was basically handed a platform and told to run with it - maintain it, expand its functions, work directly with stakeholders, and just do what is needed. The leadership trusted me to handle it, and consulted me on enterprise-wide tech strategies. When a big project came up where I could not handle it on my own, we'd get support from a project manager, and get some contract help... but it was support, not micro-management. That also gave me control of most of the other points in the article. My team had a collection of people, each basically "owned" one tech stack in the enterprise, and we could run things how we wished. To contrast that, it is modern SaaS companies that I've seen leadership pigeonhole devs onto specific Jira boards, micromanage everything in the name of doing "proper" Scrum, and tell people to stay in their lane. Maybe I've just hit the exceptions... the points in the article are absolutely valid differences between companies, I just don't think they correlate with SV vs. traditional organizations as much as the author thinks they do.