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My company has a kind of cultural disease where everyone aspires to be an architecture astronaut, people with an ounce of talent or ambition learn to treat code
by closeparen 5y ago
My company has a kind of cultural disease where everyone aspires to be an architecture astronaut, people with an ounce of talent or ambition learn to treat code as beneath them, consequently we get beautiful design docs and a garbage codebase. For that reason I would fail any candidate who displayed this attitude. I expect senior candidates to raise the bar on quality and craftsmanship in implementation, and I’ve met plenty who do. YMMV.
I don’t think being a framework partisan is a particularly good sign, but at least it shows you have some experience and reflection and taste with regard to the tensions involved in making things that run.
- war1025 5y agoI'm one of four engineers at my company. I don't have the luxury of offloading my job to someone else. Also I really feel like you're projecting attitudes that I (at least didn't mean to) portray. I design the dog food, and then I make the dog food.
- cbm-vic-20 5y agoI'm also an old fogey. When anyone says claims they or their title is "software architect", it usually means they're full of shit. The best "software architects" I've ever known typically call themselves programmers.
- blooalien 5y ago> The best "software architects" I've ever known typically call themselves programmers. Or "hackers", but then you gotta resort to "ageism" in order to discern if they're actually a real old-school hacker or a modern wannabe hacker "script kiddie". ;)