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The "war room" or "tiger team" or whatever its called is often a way to parachute in a handful of engineers that top management trusts to sort out the mess made
by willvarfar 2y ago
The "war room" or "tiger team" or whatever its called is often a way to parachute in a handful of engineers that top management trusts to sort out the mess made by the masses. Often crusty old-timer engineers are kept around just to be called on in these scenarios.
- Nifty3929 2y agoYes, and this also gives the lie to ageism. I hear this from older-than-me people fairly often, that the reason that they can't get the job they want, or a promotion, or whatever, is 'ageism.' Meanwhile, I routinely see people older than me (I'm not young) being hired, promoted and generally shown great respect - because their years of experience has given them wisdom. They also remember how things developed over time and have more experience with details farther down the abstraction stack because those abstractions weren't around when they cut their teeth. I aspire to be one of those grey beards in the not so distant future. And I doubt my age will ever hold back my career, aside from change my personal choices (for retirement, fewer hours, etc).
- pbronez 2y agoYes, but that expertise may not be easily transferable. Two decades of experience with a firm is much more valuable to that specific firm that anywhere else. If you leave that place, you only have general lessons to apply elsewhere.
- YZF 2y agoOnce you've seen enough similar systems you have a pretty good idea. You'll ramp up much faster than someone who has not. It will take time.
- whizzter 2y agoExcept recruiters doesn't think there a point to hire anyone with less than 5 years of experience with Z-DeNode (that was created 2 years ago).