Re:Developers spend most of their time figuring the system out
by decebalus1 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @07:57PM
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> a place that did 100% pair programming with rotation every day
Sounds like a nightmare. I interviewed once for a company where the team did exactly that, and it was the moment in the interviews I realized I don't want to work there.
ad-hoc peer programming is perfectly fine. Debugging something tricky or helping someone ramp up is great. But peer programming as-a-process is literally peer-micromanaging and outright insulting IMHO.
Sounds like a nightmare. I interviewed once for a company where the team did exactly that, and it was the moment in the interviews I realized I don't want to work there.
ad-hoc peer programming is perfectly fine. Debugging something tricky or helping someone ramp up is great. But peer programming as-a-process is literally peer-micromanaging and outright insulting IMHO.