> Up until my mid-level engineering, I didn’t think about the product. I think our career yardsticks are very different. Engineering is all about designing wi

> Up until my mid-level engineering, I didn’t think about the product. I think our career yardsticks are very different. Engineering is all about designing within constraints. Someone who's not designing to meet business constraints isn't doing a real engineering job for the company. Learning patterns and practices would be something you'd do in an apprenticeship if software worked like real engineering. Or if it worked like academics. Or like a trade. But you'd learn that while you also learned about how that all fit the larger context because that's part of working your way to journeyman (whatever that's called now). So . . . I agree with the author, but I don't see a need to attack product folks. We so-called engineers should probably take our craft more seriously.