Re:Software Engineers Will Work One Day For English Majors
by adrianhoward on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @06:08AM
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HN is mostly young
Interesting. I wasn't aware of an age breakdown of HN readers. Could you point me to it?
Most of the people I personally know on HN are over 30... but that may be selection bias on my part :-)
Given that there isn't a puzzle/test type of way to rank managers, the management positions get doled out as opposed to competed for
That may be true of some organisations, but certainly not all. Managers get judged on a bunch of metrics in many organisations... often bad ones unfortunately (then again - so are puzzle questions for developers :-)
Interesting. I wasn't aware of an age breakdown of HN readers. Could you point me to it?
Most of the people I personally know on HN are over 30... but that may be selection bias on my part :-)
Given that there isn't a puzzle/test type of way to rank managers, the management positions get doled out as opposed to competed for
That may be true of some organisations, but certainly not all. Managers get judged on a bunch of metrics in many organisations... often bad ones unfortunately (then again - so are puzzle questions for developers :-)