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> - If I want to join a new company, a technical blog or active developer advocates help me decide. I can get a sense of a company culture through what they cho

> - If I want to join a new company, a technical blog or active developer advocates help me decide. I can get a sense of a company culture through what they chose to post and whom they hire for their advocate roles. Working with some of these over the last forever.. I don't in any way believe they share anything about the company culture, or frankly the correct usage of the company's technology as it wants. I very much see this as people who want to be fully-time developers, but aren't currently. Across orgs - I have yet to see this not be true, but maybe it's just me, and the others with whom I discuss this. Echo champers are very much a thing.

recvonline 4y ago
That's a very bleak outlook on another profession to be honest! I met a few who were developers for 10+ years and wanted to shift, some just wanted to work more client/customer facing but still enjoyed the technical work. I mean, if you look at everything from an angle of "Coding is the best, everything else is marketing crap and sucks", sure, you will find lots of evidence for it. But coding is a very small percentage of the work done by the population as a whole. Feeling superior is just damaging your mental health and is doing nothing to else. So yeah, I worked with dev revels. And with every profession I crossed path before: Some I liked, some I didn't. Some work I thought was necessary, some wasn't.