Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
by KKKKkkkk1 on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:38AM
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The post is talking about a situation where engineers get the first feedback on their work 3 months after they started, and it turns out the work is "all wrong". And then the work is discarded and replaced with a fake demo. This is entirely different than what you describe, which is a culture of tough but objective criticism.
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Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
by dajohnson89 on Monday July 23, 2018 @12:51PM
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Thank you for pointing this out. Not getting any feedback for 3 months and then getting ripped apart in front of external stakeholders sounds like a horrible place to work.
Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
by engi_nerd on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @07:45AM
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Been there, done that. My "panel member" for our telemetry and power design review was another electrical engineer who was senior to me. He was supposed to give me feedback leading up to the review, but he didn't. So when the design review happened, he shredded me in front of our customers so badly that the customers actually complained about him to my senior managers.
It was indeed a horrible place to work.