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Re:Heisenberg Developers (2014) by vinceguidry on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @01:51AM (#11025110)
As an individual contributor, your ability to fix organizational problems is limited and efforts to do so are almost inevitably plagued by wishful thinking. You're just not in a position to be able to change how people think about things. Your skillset is not with people, it's with code.
Re:Heisenberg Developers (2014) by skewart on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @03:13AM (#11025357)
That really depends on the IC and the organization. That's probably true at some places. At a 30 person startup you'd be amazed at how much individual engineers can change things.
Re:Heisenberg Developers (2014) by soft_dev_person on Wednesday February 03, 2016 @02:04AM (#11025150)
And here I thought I was cynical...