Re:The Best Engineers Think Like Investors, Not Builders
by Flicflac on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @01:51PM
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> Why study years and years of how computers work, to then think about people and business problems?
Because in school, you study engineering in a vacuum. In the real-world, you have financial constraints, time constraints, and business goals to meet.
Re:The Best Engineers Think Like Investors, Not Builders
by proc0 on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @04:42PM
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Those are all fine, and to some extent it can be considered for engineering, but isn't there a line to draw somewhere? At some point leveraging your expertise to do other work turns into a different role completely, at least in practice. I also think in programming, because it requires a high amount of creativity, there is lots of room for improvement that is only accessed by experienced programmers, which end up transitioning away into those other roles.
> I have a rule that any engineering work must have a minimum of 2x of the rewards to justify the cost. If I spend a month migrating, it has to save me two months of time to payoff.
That's not engineering though, it's management and/or business. Why study years and years of how computers work, to then think about people and business problems? It's just interesting to me that it's a common industry expectation.