Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from me.

Re:Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from... by potatolicious on Sunday March 04, 2012 @01:37PM (#3663451)

I thought so too, but the word I hear from people I know at Facebook (where the term originated) indicate that the people who started this are pretty dead serious about the concept.

Thankfully I work with no brogrammers - this might actually start being a hiring disadvantage if companies are known to be brogrammer-heavy.

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Re:Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from... by aValidUserName on Sunday March 04, 2012 @02:18PM (#3663602)

It's a very useful indicator that the company is looking to hire barely-sentient PHP monkeys rather than actual programmers to solve interesting problems.

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Re:Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from... by pbiggar on Sunday March 04, 2012 @04:57PM (#3664203)

I've never heard that about Facebook, only the opposite: they hire awesome programmers, and then teach them PHP. Certainly, any Facebook developers I've met (online or in real life) have been pretty awesome, though my sample size is in the single digits.

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Re:Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from... by aValidUserName on Sunday March 04, 2012 @05:27PM (#3664339)

Interesting. I wasn't referring specifically to Facebook, btw, and I've never seen Facebook mention "brogrammers" in their job postings.

Do they self-identify as "brogrammers?" If so, did they do so before joining Facebook or only after the fact?

The self-described bro in the linked article appears to only "program" in PHP according to his own website, so I think my assumption that he's just a monkey is fair.

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Re:Call yourself a 'brogrammer'? Then get the hell away from... by peterhunt on Sunday March 04, 2012 @07:55PM (#3664832)

Brogramming has always been a joke at FB.

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