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Rank and file developers should not be creative. We must follow the rules and do what we're asked to do. Creativity is distractive and destructive. Filtering ou
by sklogic 11y ago
Rank and file developers should not be creative. We must follow the rules and do what we're asked to do. Creativity is distractive and destructive. Filtering out too creative candidates is one of the main purposes of an interview in most companies. You can hate this fact, but you won't change it.
- marvy 11y agoI don't think I believe you. It might be a side effect, but if so I don't believe it's intended. Why would anyone want to filter out people like the person who wrote that blog post?
- sklogic 11y agoHe's got side projects. They are not allowed in thousands of companies.
- MichaelGG 11y agoIf that's true, then the people creating the orders for these programmers should simply write code and automate the whole process. We can't do that in other jobs, like coffee servers, because vision and speech recognition, along with robotics, are too weak. But for writing code, we've got all the tools. If "rank and file" just need to follow rules and do as asked, the asker is far better off asking a computer. But they don't. Why?
- sklogic 11y agoBecause our tools suck, and when they don't we are still cheaper than such tools.
- tonyedgecombe 11y agoI disagree, programming is inherently creative, you start with an empty editor window and if you have done your job it is full of code by the end of the day.
- sklogic 11y agoMechanical transformation from requirements into a code is not "creative" and should never be "creative". Programmer is merely a compiler from English to whatever programming language he's using.
- tonyedgecombe 11y agoI've had lots of jobs over my career and none of them involved "Mechanical transformation from requirements into a code".