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> Well, let me tell you that you are my first favorited comment not containing technical info since... July 2022. Thank you! I feel like it had to be said. >

by ath3nd 3y ago

> Well, let me tell you that you are my first favorited comment not containing technical info since... July 2022. Thank you! I feel like it had to be said. > Also I'd love working with you (programmer with 22 years of experience, 43 y/o). Gladly! Message me to <my-nickname-> at protonmail dot com although I gotta warn you my hiring budgets are frozen atm. > My question to you is: do you manage to implement the policy you are advocating for? Yes! I got lucky enough to join a startup early-ish in my career and scale it up over the years. In my position (VP of Eng)I managed to have enough of influence on the the money people to be able to run the engineering org properly and without much interference. I even managed to pull off a 4 day work week for the developer teams with no reduction of salary. People've been happy, rested, our retention is very high for the industry (+4-5yr) and productivity (I hate that word) didn't suffer a single bit. Who knew? (Apart from 100s of studies). Anyway, all that came with a cost of me not being very popular with the C-suite of the company, but that's life. You can't win all people's hearts, you just gotta try to do what you think is right.

pdimitar 3y ago
> Thank you! I feel like it had to be said. Yes. Regularly and repeatedly. > I gotta warn you my hiring budgets are frozen atm That's quite fine, I just started a new job beginning of December 2023 and it's going to be a while until I start looking around (likely part-time / weekends but who knows, we might disagree on the promotion when the time comes in 3-6 months). > all that came with a cost of me not being very popular with the C-suite of the company, but that's life. You can't win all people's hearts, you just gotta try to do what you think is right. I wonder if "popular with the C-suite" is as good as many people make it out to be. If you achieve results then the fact that you're not singing everyone else's tune should not matter... but I've lived long enough to know that many people will view you as an enemy of some sort; a wildcard that must be tamed and molded and reshaped to be like everyone else. Because frak your personal approach that actually works, right? Humans' social behavior is both savage and puzzling to me. Appreciation of personal style very rarely exists in work. Anyhow, huge topic. I'd love to discuss it after I ping you over the email. :)

by ath3nd 3y ago

pdimitar 3y ago

> Thank you! I feel like it had to be said. Yes. Regularly and repeatedly. > I gotta warn you my hiring budgets are frozen atm That's quite fine, I just started a new job beginning of December 2023 and it's going to be a while until I start looking around (likely part-time / weekends but who knows, we might disagree on the promotion when the time comes in 3-6 months). > all that came with a cost of me not being very popular with the C-suite of the company, but that's life. You can't win all people's hearts, you just gotta try to do what you think is right. I wonder if "popular with the C-suite" is as good as many people make it out to be. If you achieve results then the fact that you're not singing everyone else's tune should not matter... but I've lived long enough to know that many people will view you as an enemy of some sort; a wildcard that must be tamed and molded and reshaped to be like everyone else. Because frak your personal approach that actually works, right? Humans' social behavior is both savage and puzzling to me. Appreciation of personal style very rarely exists in work. Anyhow, huge topic. I'd love to discuss it after I ping you over the email. :)