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Not very good advice. It's basically an accountants view of engineering, which can be summarized as follows: - Only be interested in increasing profit or redu
by motters 15y ago
Not very good advice. It's basically an accountants view of engineering, which can be summarized as follows:
- Only be interested in increasing profit or reducing cost
- Don't care about what you do unless it conflicts with the above
- Treat people you meet as commodities
- Produce cruddy code, because "good enough" is all that matters
- Good engineering is not a "profit center"
- Don't bother keeping up with new programming languages or new techniques
- div 15y agoYou may disagree with those views, but if they are predominant among the people who have final say in hiring you, and at what salary, then the advice is good. The whole point of the article is to force a typical engineer to look at how most of the world perceives him, and work with that. If you have to talk to another engineer as part of a hiring process, talk all the shop you want. If you're talking to business people, try to talk about the business advantages of what you do.
- _delirium 15y agoYou may disagree with those views, but if they are predominant among the people who have final say in hiring you, and at what salary, then the advice is good. Are they, though? I can see they might be if you're in consulting (as the author of this post appears to be), but I've never heard of an interview at somewhere like Google or Intel that wants to hear you talk about Providing Value; they want to know your technical skills.
- miker64 15y agoNo, the technical interviewers want to know your technical skills, because they advise the people who pull the trigger on your hiring whether you will provide value. Now, it's been a while, but my Google interview involved straight technical interviews and several interviews that were less about technical detail and far more about discerning my longer term value to the company.
- bfrs 15y agoTo an extent some parts of the article can summarized as: Ok, I don't work on cool stuff like the guys at Google do, but you know what, all that doesn't matter, as I'll make way more money over my CRUD career than those guys will. And by the way, do you know who makes the most at that multinational advertising firm?...well the CRUD guys of course!