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Yeah clearly. Most companies only want engineers to implement the companies ideas, but don’t actually care about high level ideas from those engineers. Imagine
by j7ake 2y ago
Yeah clearly. Most companies only want engineers to implement the companies ideas, but don’t actually care about high level ideas from those engineers.
Imagine you are interviewing senior levels of engineer, like Guido van Rossum: in an ideal interview, you don’t want to hear him regurgitate textbook problems taken from an exam book.
You want to hear about his vision of where he sees the field in 15 years.
But this is not what companies want.
- brandall10 2y agoA real life example of this is Kyle Simpson, the You Don't Know JS author. He's recently been public with his issues finding employment.
- tomrod 2y agoDo you have any sources you recommend?
- Aurornis 2y agoI’ve hired a book author, worked side by side with internet-famous lead devs of two different popular open source projects, and followed the lead dev of another semi-popular open source project that shows up on the HN front page frequently. The key thing I learned is that they were all very talented at what brought them success in their endeavors, but none of them actually made great developers within a company. In two cases, it became immediately obvious that they wanted to treat their job as a side project (that pays the bills) while they further expanded their book/course/open-source empire. Being the author of popular educational material doesn’t necessarily make someone a great employee. It can actually present a significant distraction, which unfortunately can make it difficult for them to get jobs.
- DanAtC 2y ago> a side project (that pays the bills) as it should be
- Aurornis 2y agoThis is exactly what Staff Engineer roles are supposed to be, and they exist all over the place. > Imagine you are interviewing senior levels of engineer, like Guido van Rossum: The average engineer applicant is not Guido van Rossum. The 99.8% percentile engineer is not Guido van Rossum. Using such a publicly accomplished and prolific person as your example isn’t doing the conversation any justice because it’s not relevant in any way to how actually hiring works.