I’ve never seen a unionized software company make good software. And I’ve seen lots of different types of software.
I don’t think programmers are interchangeable cogs and there’s so much variance and diversity across people, I wouldn’t want to work for a company that paid me the same as everyone else and fired based on seniority.
Are you insinuating that pay and layoffs are done based meritocracy today? Because that’s totally not my experience a couple of decades in the industry. And I’m leaving myself out of the sample.
Not sure if you ever attended any meeting with just directors and above. If you do you will hear only one word used for engineers: “Resource”.
Also great software, made by the megacorps, has to do as much with the engineers as McDonald’s burger have to do with the person flipping the patties.
It’s just lies we tell to ourselves.
This is a non-sequitur. Are you misunderstanding how unions work?
It's not that a particular company should unionize, but rather the software developers at every company.
The union's role is to advocate for the interests of software developers in the industry as a whole, not oversee particular software development projects.
Spot on. IT workers need to realise this and start acting accordingly. You are no more important to an exec of a tech company that a barista is to Starbuck’s exec.
Unionise and stop being jerks during technical interviews.