Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by jdmichal on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @10:36PM (#15976219)

Honestly, this is pretty straight-forward stuff, and I'm surprised you're getting any argument. If a technologist cannot explain how a proposed implementation is going to provide value to the business, that project is probably better off left alone. Prettier code and better tests don't provide value. But fewer customer-facing P1/P2 tickets provides value. That prettier code and better tests leads to fewer tickets is an implementation detail.

Let's put it this way: Netflix has one of the most robust microservice architectures I know of. I promise you will find zero mention of it anywhere on their customer-facing pages. Because that is not the problem that Netflix solves for their customer; they solve a media library and streaming problem.

The business is your customer. You need to understand their problems and how you're going to fix them. Everything else is an implementation detail.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday December 21, 2017 @09:55AM (#15979102)

>Honestly, this is pretty straight-forward stuff, and I'm surprised you're getting any argument.

I'm not. Our industry is full of academics who've been told "this is the right way to do it, everything else is stupid" for the entirety of their education. They're academics, trained by other academics, ignoring the broader reality of why we do these things at all.

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