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Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by enraged_camel on Thursday April 19, 2018 @02:26PM (#16878621)
Many non-tech employees view IT people as basically “computer janitors with bad attitudes”. Heck, I’ve worked in tech for a decade and I can count the number of people who have a positive view of their IT department in one hand.
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Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by inferiorhuman on Friday April 20, 2018 @05:16AM (#16883331)
Doing ops at megacorp meant that we got treated like code janitors by our own management.
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Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by hulahoof on Thursday April 19, 2018 @06:31PM (#16880748)
To be fair, In my (admittedly limited) experience contracting at BigCorp - the IT department's procedures are often a bottleneck in a workflow or solutions.

We all know they are following business procedure, but there will always be some unconcious tension with departments that hinder a solution (I see marketing and legal butt heads all day).

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Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by regularfry on Friday April 20, 2018 @03:56AM (#16882946)
In my experience they're also critically understaffed.
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Re:The latest trend for tech interviews: Days of unpaid home... by hulahoof on Friday April 20, 2018 @07:29AM (#16883885)
Right, but putting a face to a blocker in a project is hard to remove mentally.

In an ideal world, IT and Devs would be on the same page - after all who will be first contact when an end user encounters an issue?

The separation of development and support makes sense from a budgeting point of view, but operationally should be intertwined (IMO).

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