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As someone who has spent 20+ years working in large companies you can spot developers like him a mile away i.e. the sort of behaviour you see with skilled but a
by threeseed 3y ago
As someone who has spent 20+ years working in large companies you can spot developers like him a mile away i.e. the sort of behaviour you see with skilled but arrogant grads/interns.
The right approach when you're new is to quietly pick a simple problem away from the core services where you can learn the processes and polices needed to get something into Production. More so when you're in a company that is undergoing a brain drain.
Then you can progressively move to solving more demanding and critical issues.
- pseg134 3y agoYou should write a book or a blog about how to not rock the boat at large companies. Maybe you can call it Going Nowhere Fast.
- threeseed 3y agoYou don't need a book about it when it's a concept children understand. Before you run you learn to walk.
- pseg134 3y agoSome people were just born to run. Their legs don’t really work right for walking.
- barrkel 3y agoLarge companies normally (unlike Twitter) have achieved strong product market fit and are all about tweaks that deliver marginal revenue. Given that they already have a big slice of the market, the multiplier on marginal revenue makes what you're doing worthwhile. "Rocking the boat" is more likely than not to make things worse.