Re:Hire people who aren’t proven
by realbarack on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:18PM
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Empathy is not part of computer science, but is incredibly important in software engineering. In software engineering, much of the day-to-day work includes things like:
* Discussing and ultimately making decisions
* Learning about how things work from people with a different set of knowledge than you
* Doing things which optimize for the understanding of other people after you, as opposed to optimizing for your own productivity in this second
Software engineers who do these things with low empathy end up contributing to the stereotypes about engineers who are unpleasant to work with because they don't consider other people.
* Discussing and ultimately making decisions
* Learning about how things work from people with a different set of knowledge than you
* Doing things which optimize for the understanding of other people after you, as opposed to optimizing for your own productivity in this second
Software engineers who do these things with low empathy end up contributing to the stereotypes about engineers who are unpleasant to work with because they don't consider other people.