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If your management doesn't get you the stuff you need to be productive your company is a failure. Move somewhere else.
by toenail 3y ago
If your management doesn't get you the stuff you need to be productive your company is a failure. Move somewhere else.
- genocidicbunny 3y agoDepends on the tool. I've seen engineers ask for an IDA license to try to debug a pretty simple memory overrun crash. The manager rightfully told that engineer to go use Visual Studio first. Otoh, if management isn't willing to drop $50 on a one time purchase that increases your productivity, it's definitely a flag. Maybe not a red one, but at least mauve.
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- pflenker 3y agoMy own stance as a lead is that it costs more than 50€ just discussing the thing, so we might as well just buy it.
- Hammershaft 3y ago50€ can be literally less than 30 minutes of discussion over the item being bought.
- criddell 3y agoA discussion involves two people, so halve that. A then consider the opportunity cost. A relatively rare 50€ purchase likely isn’t worth any discussion.
- PeterisP 3y agoSure, but in the parent example it's more like a 2k-3k license, which makes sense only if you're going to use it regularly.
- School-Cotton 3y agoIDA costs thousands of dollars per seat
- mbork_pl 3y ago> Maybe not a red one, but at least mauve. You mean mauve, as in "the universally recognised colour for danger"? ;-)
- pompino 3y agoThe problem is who decides what really matters? Every department is biased towards their own needs. Upper management is usually clueless when it comes to technical needs, even if they've done the job before - because it was probably 10+ years ago.
- maccard 3y agoI think it's less about does it really matter, and more about do we have a solution for this/is this something that will spread and we need to negotiate a price on.
- pompino 3y agoAgreed, There are many ways of looking at it.
- toenail 3y agoThe individuals decide what matters to them. If the company thinks their employees are too incompetent to know what they need it's time to move on.
- deprecative 3y agoUnfortunately, you just described 99% of employers. "Just quit" isn't an answer when there are no meaningful alternatives. Business views SWE/tech as a cost of doing business rather than an investment.
- pompino 3y agoMost programmers are notoriously bad about estimating anything - ship dates, time to investigate bugs, time to close bugs, time to implement features, complexity, etc, etc. I wouldn't blindly believe a programmer about a tool increasing productivity by __ %. I would listen to their argument first, and look at their experience. I would believe them if they have made good decisions in the past, or if they were a senior/experienced person who understands these nuances. In any case, I hope you agree that there is a spectrum. Because disagreement is not about "incompetence".
- andersa 3y agoThat really depends on how much money they are happily paying you to be unproductive.
- xvilka 3y agoMost companies in fact are. Just look at the survival rate.