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"Personally speaking, I would never work with anybody who did this - no matter if they were a 10X productive super rockstar who invents new languages on the sid
by diolpah 15y ago
"Personally speaking, I would never work with anybody who did this - no matter if they were a 10X productive super rockstar who invents new languages on the side."
Thank you for volunteering to help those of us who prefer to hire on merit. More for us.
- Uchikoma 15y agoI wish you much fun with hiring such a guy and exploding your team.
- michaelchisari 15y agoAppropriate behavior doesn't factor into your definition of merit? Do you hire purely on code quality?
- pyre 15y agoSo as long as someone is a 'rockstar' coder, it doesn't matter if he/she destroys the morale for the rest of your employees? <sarcasm> I guess it's just their loss. They should feel privileged to be working with <rockstar coder>! </sarcasm>
- diolpah 15y agoAny organization that maintains an institutional fear of saying the "wrong thing" destroys its ability to effectively communicate such that the morale will have already hit rock bottom by the time someone actually does get offended.
- pyre 15y agoSo the only way to combat being afraid of offending people is to purposely be offensive?
- rimantas 15y agoIf a slide with bikini-clad women with laptops can destroy your teem's morale you have a bigger problems to worry about.
- pyre 15y agoMy take-away is that the 'rockstar coder' feels the need to be offensive to impress others with his/her edgy-ness. The idea that people who do these things at conferences, would never do them anywhere else, is a little naive. The 'slide with a bikini-clad woman' is more likely a symptom, than a self-contained aberration.