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It's kind of obvious that the guy who wrote that email has never had to put together a workplace. 'Pick your computer'? Come on! You'll have 10x more hardware s
by d--b 14y ago
It's kind of obvious that the guy who wrote that email has never had to put together a workplace. 'Pick your computer'? Come on! You'll have 10x more hardware support!! 'Pick your OS'?! Are you insane? How is your team going to work if they are all on different OS?! The no vacation policy is horrible. It only encourages people to work more. The 'clear salary' system is just not feasible. You have to have leeway in the compensation you give to anyone.
- yesimahuman 14y agoAuthor here :) Thanks for the feedback! I am standing by the computer part. The technologies we use are pretty standard web dev stuff (HTML/CSS/JS and Python/Django). As long as line endings stay Unix, it doesn't matter what machine you use. I think it's crucial that developers use the environment they work best in. If you can build the same software on any OS, you should get the one you prefer. At our size, I'm not worried about hardware support, and I'm guessing most people will want a Macbook Pro anyways.
- jfb 14y agoIf you are a technical company, and your employees cannot support themselves, then you have a hiring problem, not an IT problem.
- jsabo 14y agoOn the choose your own OS, this is why Vagrant was made. It's not like the company is going to provide any meaningful operating system support at that size (or really at any size for a developer) so there's really no benefit to forcing people to use a specific OS.