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> there is no job in the modern tech industry that involves working alone. Positions with aspects of management or sales typically involve actually working wi
by flatline 14y ago
> there is no job in the modern tech industry that involves working alone.
Positions with aspects of management or sales typically involve actually working with people, but this can be hard to achieve for many others. The high tech field can be great for people who want to work in isolation, and fairly lonely for people who do not. I have never worked in a place that effectively implemented things like mentoring programs, for PhDs or anyone else. I am on the East Coast, I suspect that this trend is less prevalent out West. You may form bonds with people through a work environment, but the majority of your daily (and weekly, and monthly) effort is a solitary endeavor. I have heard this complaint from people working on PhD-level industrial research, to coding, to website design. Getting in with a company that recognizes and values real teamwork, assuming you are able to communicate effectively with others, will make nearly any job a much more pleasant experience.
- emmapersky 14y agoI think this is really interesting. What "working alone" means is complex. For example, at Hashable, I was effectively working alone, despite there being a wider notion of collaboration. More over, when other people came in to contact with parts of the code I was actively working on, instead of trying to work through those components together (not neccsarily in a pairing way, but just a more general collaboration), the standard was to make you change and not care about the consequences. In a code base without tests this was a nightmare. If / when I am next looking for a job, really understanding how a company collaborates is high up on my agenda of questions.