Many software companies are a joke

Re:Many software companies are a joke by frank_nitti on Monday May 16, 2022 @09:43AM (#31397054)

From what I understood, they are talking about the author’s complaint that he doesn’t get to spend 100% of his workday coding/testing/documenting. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the companies were poorly run - larger enterprises with more projects, teams and customers are going to require more meetings.

Maybe he worked at poorly managed companies, who knows. The fact that he was asked to participate in meetings instead of only being assigned purely code-related tasks isn’t very compelling evidence of a company being a “joke”.

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Re:Many software companies are a joke by malort on Monday May 16, 2022 @01:29PM (#31400696)

> the author’s complaint that he doesn’t get to spend 100% of his workday coding/testing/documenting

The author's complaint was that he only gets to spend 12-25% of his time on these tasks on a good day.

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Re:Many software companies are a joke by pydry on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:14AM (#31397521)

I tend to find that where the PO/product job doesnt have to be shared with developers the velocity and quality of the product improves considerably.

I dont think that relatively speaking companies that dont do this are horribly run since it seems to be the norm but I can see why somebody who isnt used to it would rant.

In general larger companies do everything inefficiently. It's to be expected. Small companies wouldnt exist otherwise.

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