Re:At JPMorgan, productivity falls for younger employees at ...
by onion2k on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @03:27AM
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If I hire painters, I can tell if they’re doing a good job by looking at it.
It's easy to make a job look good for a day, but on some jobs if you skip the prep work, lining, filling, priming, undercoat, additional coats, clearcoat, and finishing the paint job is going to look pretty bad after a year. You can't tell how good a painter is unless you know a bit about painting things.
The same is true of software. In order to know if a developer is productive you really need to know quite a lot about the domain they're writing software for.
It's easy to make a job look good for a day, but on some jobs if you skip the prep work, lining, filling, priming, undercoat, additional coats, clearcoat, and finishing the paint job is going to look pretty bad after a year. You can't tell how good a painter is unless you know a bit about painting things.
The same is true of software. In order to know if a developer is productive you really need to know quite a lot about the domain they're writing software for.