Re:Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale
by 908B64B197 on Saturday April 10, 2021 @02:07PM
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> There’s a bell curve of software engineering ability in the world. There’s a few super geniuses, a bunch of smart cookies and a whole lot of people in the middle.
We see the effects of that throughout our industry and yet it's never publicly acknowledged.
> And remember, hotshots are equally ungrounded. Lots of good engineers you meet at Google were hired at straight out of college. They have no idea how the sausage is made anywhere else.
One of the most eye opening experience one can do is 3x the compensation for a software role and see what caliber of engineers it attracts. I remember one company who did that for college hires and they were shocked. They had been whining for a while about the "talent shortage" and that it was hard finding folks in the local market. Turns out the folks they really wanted to hire were there all along, just invisible.
We see the effects of that throughout our industry and yet it's never publicly acknowledged.
> And remember, hotshots are equally ungrounded. Lots of good engineers you meet at Google were hired at straight out of college. They have no idea how the sausage is made anywhere else.
One of the most eye opening experience one can do is 3x the compensation for a software role and see what caliber of engineers it attracts. I remember one company who did that for college hires and they were shocked. They had been whining for a while about the "talent shortage" and that it was hard finding folks in the local market. Turns out the folks they really wanted to hire were there all along, just invisible.