This isn't an IT thing. The vast majority of people are average. Anyone who thinks they do better than the rest is likely wrong. It requires insane levels of bureaucratic power and will to truly force anything better than average.

Every single business is full of people who are adequate. From the line staff all the way up to managers. Cynical people call it the peter principle, but it might just be that an average manager is only averagely good at judging who is good at their job and therefore average people are just as likely to get promoted.

> This isn't an IT thing. The vast majority of people are average. Anyone who thinks they do better than the rest is likely wrong. It requires insane levels of bureaucratic power and will to truly force anything better than average.

Or work in a smaller company.

Why do you think smaller companies aren't also full of average people?

The point is that smaller companies are less full of _people_. Less bureaucracy, less institutional inertia and more relative influence of each individual.

Yeah, if someone’s not getting with the program it’s easier to walk across the building and talk to them than email across 3+ time zones and potentially a language barrier.

It's not an IT thing.

Google was a superpower in 2001. I started working in Enterprise IT then and people thought that I had miraculous powers.

Today, it's a crutch and almost anywhere you look, people are searching for random stuff to throw on the wall to see what sticks.

seems like a decent approach. Care expounding?

It's action over reflexion, showing "fast results" over "good results"

You can blame most of it on SEO. Minimally, it's about making sure what you've created is accurately represented. Maximally, it's about tricking people into thinking you're what they want when you aren't. The way that happens is through worse search results.

It's enough to be obedient, not too curious, not having too much self-esteem, and be able to cope with doing crap work (and knowing it) because... well, management doesn't understand the interest of quality

(sorry, too cynical... but I'm in the field for more than 20 years)

it doesn't exist

I suppose you could start your own company but then you will ultimately have to choose to ship and eat or perfect and starve

Perfect is not a must, but good quality would be nice at least.

but "good quality" is subjective which is why it seems like finding a firm that focuses on "good quality" is so difficult

I'm curious, too. It's sad to be the only one even using proper commit messages.

I hear ya :-/

What work are you interested in? Will email you if we match up.

Good degree from good university?

Does that really help in that regard?

I didn't mean it seriously.. I have neither but embrace best practices at work.

Opposite.