Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015)
by whimsicalism on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:35AM
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> They are fearful and paranoid of making a bad hire because they don't know how to assess whether the engineer is destroying the company from the inside.
This is the obvious conclusion. I wonder when investors will wake up to the value of having engineering-savvy management.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015)
by a1369209993 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @03:33PM
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> I wonder when investors will wake up to the value of having engineering-savvy management.
To be fair, engineering-savviness and willingness to be management (especially the kind of management that are legible to investors) are substantially anticorrelated.
If there was a reliable general algorithm to make good software managers would hire lousy engineers then tell them to execute the algorithm. There isn't, they can't. The fallback is to be as picky as possible about who has influence on the software.