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Almost every software job in the city was terrible. You had a choice of which kind of terrible. Want to wear a suit and work long hours under crummy con
by leelin 17y ago
Almost every software job in the city was terrible.
You had a choice of which kind of terrible.
Want to wear a suit and work long hours under crummy
conditions? Take a job at a bank.
Interesting that Joel semi-praises Microsoft but didn't mention his other former employer, D. E. Shaw / Juno (and the growing number of firms similar to DESCO). They are (relatively) hacker-friendly finance companies with no suits or long hours.
- aswanson 17y agoIn his book he mentioned DE Shaw nanomanaged and power-tripped on programmers.
- leelin 17y agoWeird, if anything my experience was the opposite, almost too little management. Maybe his experience was exclusive to the way things were run at Juno as opposed to the trading side of the business.