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My guess is most companies now believe they have procedures which can keep a somewhat quality output with average, cheaper people. The industry (tech, others)
by fifteen1506 2y ago
My guess is most companies now believe they have procedures which can keep a somewhat quality output with average, cheaper people.
The industry (tech, others) has never given up trying to transform employees into a cog in the machine and, while software engineering has so far apparently escaped being caged onto a cog-like structure, I believe it's a matter of time.
- ElevenLathe 2y agoWow, what niche are you in that developers aren't just swapped out like spark plugs at the whims of {,product} managers? Literally didn't know this hadn't happened everywhere yet. I thought this attitude of treating programmers as real professionals died with the dot com crash.
- fifteen1506 2y agoNowhere. I just assumed I had been unlucky so far. Appears not. Any tips on which software-related industries that hasn't happened, if any?
- ElevenLathe 2y agoYeah that was my point. Programmers are no longer viewed as "professionals". I've never experienced it, but my understanding is that this used to be the case, mostly before the 2000 crash. That's when we wore ties, had offices with doors, were allowed to talk to customers and upper management, weren't herded around by "scrum masters", etc. Seems like another world to me, but maybe there is some company somewhere that hasn't gotten the memo yet and still runs that way.