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What is a line engineer?
by gems 13y ago
What is a line engineer?
- klochner 13y agonon-managing software engineer - you write code.
- gems 13y agoIs it looked down upon if you don't go up in the ranks as you age?
- rayiner 13y agoThis is true in most fields. In the officer ranks of the military, you're generally forced into retirement if you're passed up for promotion twice. In many government jobs, you're forced out if one of your former subordinates is promoted past you.
- smcl 13y agoOnly twice? I've never know the ins and outs of the military (and ex-PFC Wintergreen is the closest I'll probably ever know to people being demoted or missing promotion) however this seems incredibly harsh.
- radiusq 13y agoHe said officers, not everyone
- rayiner 13y agoSee the description of the promotion "zones." In practice its really just once because its rare to be promoted on the second chance. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/promotions/l/blofficerprom.htm http://usmilitary.about.com/od/promotions/l/blofficerprom.ht....
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- gruseom 13y agoIt used to be, but the industry is changing. The status of programmers is going up and that of middle managers is going down. As Silicon Valley goes today, so goes BigCo tomorrow, and woe betide the BigCo that does not. That's the theory, anyway.
- MetaCosm 13y agoThat generally leaked in from other industries, but it seems to be going away. Since great developers are productivity multipliers ... companies are starting to understand that keeping them coding when they are 25x more productive than an average coder is worth more than having them manage 8 average developers. There is a reason "developers" are getting hundreds of thousands of dollars in retainment packages to keep them from starting their own shops.
- beachstartup 13y agoyes. it is. people can deny it or choose otherwise or say it's not politically correct, but it's true.
- aspensmonster 13y agoSomeone in a subordinate role with little to no authority or autonomy. To me, it sounds like a subtly derogatory reference, meant to conjure up imagery of "line cooks" that spend their time cooking one thing and one thing only --eggs, bacon, patties, etc-- and sending it down the line to be finished by the actual "chefs."