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Probably some of that, plus the factors mentioned in Joel's old blog post: In an over-simplified world of Good Developers and Bad Developers, the Good Develope
by ufmace 6y ago
Probably some of that, plus the factors mentioned in Joel's old blog post:
In an over-simplified world of Good Developers and Bad Developers, the Good Developers generally don't get fired or quit much, and if they do, can usually get another job through references they made at their last one. If they happen to not have any references who can get them a new job and enter the general recruiting market, they usually get snapped up quickly.
Bad Developers tend to get fired or forced to quit a lot. Nobody who has experience working with them wants to hire them. They spend a lot of time on the general market applying for tons of companies that reject them. They keep doing this until they either finally learn some skills or figure out that development just isn't for them and find another line of work.
Ditto for terrible companies to work for.
- 908B64B197 6y ago> In an over-simplified world of Good Developers and Bad Developers, the Good Developers generally don't get fired or quit much, and if they do, can usually get another job through references they made at their last one. If they happen to not have any references who can get them a new job and enter the general recruiting market, they usually get snapped up quickly. They will also get snapped even before they end-up on the open market. For college hires, might be more than a year before they graduate or accepting a full time position at the end of an internship.
- giantg2 6y agoI've had the same job for 9 years, but I'm not marketable. I guess I fall into the bad developer category.
- brigandish 6y agoI'd say that puts you in the good developer category, or someone with a job they like. Hopefully both!
- giantg2 6y agoI hate my job. I'm unmarketable because I became an expert in two obscure stacks.
- ufmace 6y agoHey, I said it's oversimplified. Don't get hung up on trying to categorize yourself as one or the other. You CAN get into another stack or another company if you really want to.