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This community here at HN has taught me that CEOs often do work that us engineers are not aware of. It's possible that your ex CEO was doing work that required
by Freedom2 3y ago
This community here at HN has taught me that CEOs often do work that us engineers are not aware of. It's possible that your ex CEO was doing work that required such a machine.
- deprecative 3y agoHighly doubtful. The CEO is probably out on a golf course or pretending to look at a slide show.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoAnd the engineers weren't? His MacBook was just an Office 365 and iCloud machine.
- pithon 3y agoDon't many engineers just use their laptop as a thin client to remote into servers?
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoNot us, we did FW dev. Not every SW engineer is a web dev working in cloud, even on HN. Also in web dev many run and test things locally so working with good machines helps. Also, the equipment you get shows you how little a company values its engineers and how much it values its management. If they insist on giving you the cheapest bottom of the barrel laptop and monitors they can find, they probably won't pay you competitively as well. A lesson I found the hard way.
- tcmart14 3y agoYea, to back up the point some more. I work on a completely desktop enterprise solution. So there is no offloading the work from my machine either. Our test suite even on moderately fast hardware still takes about 10 minutes to run the full suite parallelized.