Re:They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia
by joejerryronnie on Sunday May 12, 2019 @02:03PM
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Sounds like four political reasons. Better strap in for the long haul cause it doesn’t sound like things are gonna change quickly. Unless you happen to find that person who can understand and motivate developers while navigating the political power structure toward real solutions. Unfortunately, those people are even more rare than the 10x developer.
Re:They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia
by dilyevsky on Sunday May 12, 2019 @05:23PM
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3 is not political. It’s hard to maintain hiring standards in this crazy market when you’re under business pressure to scale and it’s only natural management gets desperate after some time. I’ve seen this firsthand several times.
Re:They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia
by mathattack on Sunday May 12, 2019 @12:38PM
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On point 1, perhaps it’s time to whip out the Mythical Man Month?
* The local management are non-technical and have a rudimentary equation that 1 developer = 1 productivity unit
* The bootcamp has some really great salespeople
* Hiring is generally difficult for great dev talent, so their logic is just to hire anyone for the numbers, otherwise their budget gets constrained by kafkaesque finance practice from the companies HQ.
* Local political and PR reasons, the company is "hiring local talent", "equal opportunities" etc.