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Re:The art of interrupting software engineers by jacques_chester on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:16PM (#20561544)
It doesn't to me, so this might be a disagreement about the meaning of forced. Nobody is surprised that the default mode is fulltime pairing, we make a point of having candidates experience it beforehand.

And as I noted above, pairing isn't mandated. Teams are free to adopt any process they please, but most folks at Pivotal like the defaults and we tend to gravitate to them.

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Re:The art of interrupting software engineers by nfrbc on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:29PM (#20561611)
I've been in such a team.

Pairing was optional, but the team chose to do it, so everyone on the team had to do it.

It wasn't "forced" because I "always had the option to quit the job".

It was hell.

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Re:The art of interrupting software engineers by jacques_chester on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:32PM (#20561627)
I'm sorry that your experience was hell. My experience has been different. That doesn't detract from yours.
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Re:The art of interrupting software engineers by nfrbc on Monday July 29, 2019 @10:57PM (#20561751)
It's alright. I had great experiences with pairing when it wasn't forced on me and I had autonomy.
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