Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
by austincheney on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:05PM
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Those are nice. Thanks for sharing that!
I have never seen anything remotely close to that in a place of corporate employment ever. I have been doing this in the corporate world since 2006, but if you count my time as a security analyst in the military than I could push that date back to 2001.
The military does force feed you (memorization verbatim) ethical standards, though, at a huge contrast to the loosey goosey corporate world:
Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
by andor on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @05:18PM
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Those are not ethical standards or concepts. "Loyalty" and "duty" don't help evaluating if an action is good.
Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
by austincheney on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @08:20PM
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The values are vague intentionally so that they can be broadly applied. They are not a code of ethics but a guiding set of virtues.
The NCO Creed, however, absolutely is a code of ethics.
Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
by craftinator on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:35PM
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I had a similar shock, after 10 years as an analyst in the Marine Corps. It's a strange country we live in.
Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
by roland35 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @01:51PM
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Hiring is hard even in places where everything is quantified, such as baseball! Only a few teams have consistent success signing good value contracts even with all the statistics available.
Re:Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry?
by discreteevent on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:42PM
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Baseball is a bit different because there is only one winning team. Those people can still all bat (or whatever) much much better than the average qualified electrician can wire. But the point is that the average qualified electrician can wire. Whereas with the average programming interview candidate it seems to be a bit of a lottery.
ACM Code of Ethics: https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics
There are incompetent people in every industry. So what.
Hiring is an arcane mystery in every industry where productivity can't be quantified. So what.