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Lots of staff devs do nothing but coordinate and plan technology.
by jnwatson 4y ago
Lots of staff devs do nothing but coordinate and plan technology.
- eddsh1994 4y ago> Lots of staff devs do nothing but coordinate and plan technology. "coordinate and plan technology" can be a huge amount of effort, vastly greater than "nothing".
- drewbeck 4y ago"A lot of staff devs do nothing but critical organizational work"
- fknorangesite 4y ago> Lots of staff devs do nothing but their jobs.
- riskable 4y agoThat's not "doing nothing" it's "doing bureaucracy" and IMHO it's a lot more mentally exhausting than coding. Imagine if every hour of every work day in your calendar is full of various forms of "planning" meetings. How are you supposed to write code and attend all this nonsense at the same time? You can't. To be fair it sure feels like doing nothing but employers consider it necessary and a job that only senior people can handle.
- yunwal 4y agoI've been in one of these jobs before, and it's certainly exhausting. I'm not necessarily convinced it's useful though. It always seemed like a lot of planning and replanning of work that prevented anything from actually getting done.
- dceddia 4y agoIt seems like a lot of replies to this are reading it as "Lots of staff devs do nothing; they just coordinate and plan technology". Another way to read this is as saying coordination and planning are the job. They "do nothing but", as in "only do".
- jnwatson 4y agoExactly. I'm staff at Google.
- khazhoux 4y agoYes. But some senior devs actually do very little, for a number of reasons.