[Discuss] Software Development (OT?)

[gcmarx at gmail.com (Gordon Marx)]

On Sep 9, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you write code for a living today then you're probably part of a group, an organization in fact, and possibly one that's part of an even larger development organization. You're not really a programmer in the old sense. You're an assembly line worker. You assemble the pieces of code that your managers tell you to write. You follow the procedures set down by those managers because if you don't then your code won't work with the pieces of code being written by all the other workers in the organization. You follow the procedures because you'll be fired if you don't and you'll be fired if you complain about them.

Uhh...dear the list: if you work in a shithole like this, let's talk, because I don't, and I love referral bonuses almost as much as I love helping people's lives get better.

Gordon