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I was wondering the same thing. The most generous interpretation I can give Mixtent is that the survey asked its respondents to rate these developers as team pl
by anthuswilliams 15y ago
I was wondering the same thing. The most generous interpretation I can give Mixtent is that the survey asked its respondents to rate these developers as team players and then found that those developers who tended to be ranked as above average team players also tended to be ranked as better overall engineers. But in general, this "finding" destroyed all credibility the article might have had with me.
- riffraff 15y agoI think it does have some value. I, like you, assume they did a cross questionaire (Do you prefer Alice or Bob? Do you think Alice is a better team player than Bob? Do you think Alice has a better work ethic than Bob? etc) But while this does not tell us much about the fact that "better team players" get chosen more, it does teel that "people who appear more like team players" get chosen more. Since most of what one puts in resume/cv is _trying to appear something_ the information that appearing a good rails dev is less useful than appearing like a good "team player" has some (arguable) value.