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In my experience I would like to move in the other direction specialization. As a generalist by circumstance (First engineering hire and then I became the only
by sid6376 13y ago
In my experience I would like to move in the other direction specialization. As a generalist by circumstance (First engineering hire and then I became the only developer at my startup when my CTO left) it gets grating after a while. Particularly when the newer hires automatically assume if there is something unpleasant or even slightly outside their defined work, it's your job. What i also observed that as a generalist there is a cap on what you can learn in a specific field. This works for a while, I learnt a lot at my startup particularly since I was coming from a non web background, but my learning hit a cap a year after I joined and I was constantly juggling production bugs, sys admin tasks and database optimization sometimes all at once, which hardly left much time to become an expert in anything.
- senko 13y agoParticularly when the newer hires automatically assume if there is something unpleasant or even slightly outside their defined work, it's your job. It is your job as their lead to make them understand "Somebody Else's Problem" is poisonous for their team (if that's how things are working in your team; when the organization gets large enough to make it worthwhile to have somebody else fix that problem, the same behaviour can be beneficial). In my company (7 of us), every new hire gets an unassembled chair and an uninstalled computer and are expected to take care of it themselves on their first day (I guess you could say it's part of our company culture).
- antoko 13y agoIn my company (7 of us), every new hire gets an unassembled chair and an uninstalled computer and are expected to take care of it themselves on their first day (I guess you could say it's part of our company culture). Heh that sounds awesome. A very real demonstration to a new hire what's expected of them - "Stuff needs doing? roll up your sleeves and get it done."
- BrianEatWorld 13y agoThat is really clever. I had to build my own chair and desk on my first day and didn't even give it a second thought as to why that was the case.