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>* Why are fun place to work and quality products mutually exclusive?* Because "fun place to work" obviously means beer and bongs passing around, in-office swi
by batista 14y ago
>* Why are fun place to work and quality products mutually exclusive?*
Because "fun place to work" obviously means beer and bongs passing around, in-office swimming pool, bikini models, pool and air-hockey tables, and Futurama watching marathons.
Which doesn't result in the highest quality products, if any products at all.
- eli 14y agoIs that really what's it's like, or is that just what it looked like in a movie about its early days?
- chii 14y agoOr would you rather work at a place where every little change you want to make needs to be "approved", and any new ideas you wanted to try needs to be checked off by a manager, who may or may not want it implemented depending on the political situation?
- kelnos 14y agoNo, because "fun place to work" means your #1 focus on building new features and getting them out to users as quickly as possible. Building quality products means the tedium of writing test suites larger than the rest of the code base, fixing them when they fail, and a sometimes-lengthy review process before pushing things to prod. Not saying the stuff associated with quality is bad -- quite the opposite -- but (at least to me) that part isn't particularly fun.