Re:Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France
by Jyaif on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:38PM
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- very large aversion to new technology. Pretty much constantly lagging 1 to 2 years behind the rest of the community.
If by "technology" you mean web framework, then that sounds like a feature!
Re:Welcoming Tech Talent from Around the World to France
by on_and_off on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @06:03AM
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Nah, I mean practical libraries that would actually help our codebase..
In my stack (Android) : started adopting EventBus while Rx was already pretty mature, deep into spaghetti code architecture while it has already been showed that variations around MVP or MVVM would be very beneficial.
I can't go into too much detail here but when there are some very big challenges around this product which faces an enormous memory usage and tons of memory leaks.
I am very practical and don't feel the need to use all the latest toys but here these are cases where the product could have been greatly improved by being a part of the community instead of living in an ivory tower where you are absolutely distrustful of external code to a ridiculous degree.
I have worked in France for most of my career so far. My first hand experience is of course limited (I only have 5 years of experience) but I really feel that the FrenchTech is overblown. There are some great startups but they are extremely rare.
We have started hiring non french people in the startup I work for one year ago and the culture clash is tremendous. Things that have bothered me for a while are doubly strange for them :
- Everything takes a LOT of time and nobody prioritizes making the process more efficient. There are many bottlenecks.. after discussing with colleagues in non French companies, they have all found solutions in order to solve them. Here there is no will to do so. So it can take weeks to merge simple changes.
- very large aversion to new technology. Pretty much constantly lagging 1 to 2 years behind the rest of the community.
-LOTS of office politics
I don't expect any of these to become perfect in another country but I am more than ready for a change of air.