Re:When I hear people complain it’s hard to hire good softwa...
by lapcat on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:30AM
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> I’ve been on a team with a mix of old fogeys (I was one of them) and much younger folks. It was great.
Diversity is undervalued in tech. Many companies have a hiring process that's like an assembly line, and it produces workers who are all the same, replaceable cogs. Managers tend to like this, in theory, but the workforce ends up being less than the sum of its parts, because the workers tend to all have the same biases, all the same weaknesses, all the same strengths, so the weaknesses are magnified, and the strengths have diminishing returns. What you want in a great team is individuals who have different, complementing strengths. And who can cover for each other's weaknesses, because they don't all have the same ones.
Diversity is undervalued in tech. Many companies have a hiring process that's like an assembly line, and it produces workers who are all the same, replaceable cogs. Managers tend to like this, in theory, but the workforce ends up being less than the sum of its parts, because the workers tend to all have the same biases, all the same weaknesses, all the same strengths, so the weaknesses are magnified, and the strengths have diminishing returns. What you want in a great team is individuals who have different, complementing strengths. And who can cover for each other's weaknesses, because they don't all have the same ones.