Posted on 11/29/2016 5:32:51 AM PST by spintreebob
Edited on 11/29/2016 5:48:35 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Listen, turn and burn has been the name of the game in software development for a very long time. One does not have the luxury of dwelling on "deep" unless one is an architect, which she is clearly not. This person is a wannabe code monkey, and her competition lives not in Sunnyvale, but in Bangalore, where they are working 14 hours a day, Pacific time. She is one of the lost, and this article is the beginning of her realization.
“So I choke down my values and discomfort and attempt a push of my own, amid the internal screams that this is wrong and irresponsible and how dare I. I don’t get very far. My feeble, half-hearted steps cannot compete with your bold, proud strides. So I cower back to my corner with my broken brain and peep at your success through the leaves.
I do not belong. My values are not valued. My thinking is strange and foreign. My world view has no place here. It is not that I am better, it is that I am different, and my difference feels incompatible with yours, dear tech. So I will mark my corner, a small plot of land and stand firmly here, trying to understand you and reconcile these conflicting differences.”
That one seriously needs to get into another field of business.
Jeeez, what a whiny, cheese-laden soul, who needs to be put on suicide watch.
Get all the knives and scissors out of that house.
She used the word, “cute” almost as much as another author uses the words, “holy cow”.
I read about 3/4 through and had to skim after that.
The bottom line is that she reminds me of a lot of the queen bees I worked with. Perfectionist to a fault. They try to turn a Yugo factory into a Rolls Royce factory, forgetting the company’s vision and why Yugos are cheaper than a rolls.
That being said, I always went for the highest quality attainable within budget. But the reality of SUCCESSFUL business is that there is always a budget.
Same here.
This is a dumb essay and this woman is not a computer scientist—end of story.
I suspect it is a fear of commitment. I started in COBOL in the early 80’s but now I code in Groovy/Grails. It has gotten FAR worse. Not only do they not know exactly what they want, they don’t know how it should look. But they know the design you implemented isn’t right. They expected to enter department code instead of employee ID. They wanted to see totals over here.
Every day I swear I’m going to throw in the towel and go back to COBOL.
I can sum up the entire blog article in a single sentence: I don’t belong in this job because my standards are too high.
My wife was a COBOL programmer before we had kids. Just last night, she was going off on how modern programs are not properly written. She was having all kinds of problems with an online program we have to use for something and how she wants to go work for these people and teach them the right way to do stuff.
I’m nothing but a tech user and have absolutely zero interest in how it’s done. My eyes glaze over when friends start talking about the latest gizmo or device.
She actually got mad at me because I wanted a 50 page document printed instead of just on the screen.
Saron Yitbarek has sopped up a lot of media.
Sometimes he says wrong things, and then I have to explain why those things are wrong .... Bless his little heart
I read this, and thought, "What an arrogant B*tch.". There's usually a reason why people aren't successful, and she may be looking in the wrong places.
The Author chasing a clue reminds me of a kid chasing butterflies, lots of running around and jumping and grabbing, but nothing to show for it in the end.
I am asking these questions honestly and hope that you will respond.
For just a curious side note the surname Yitbarek originates from Ethiopia. She looks white, but I guess she is a very light skinned woman. Very attractive from the small picture she has at the link.
They expected to enter department code instead of employee ID.
This happens a LOT. One time they brought in a CR on a project and I could see that it could not be done. But it was from way up the ladder, so they wanted it. No problem, I white boarded it in front of them and got to the impossible part and said, “and then what happens?”
After much discussion, they said they would get back to me. The next day the CR was cancelled.
These days the government mandates that the public will buy new air conditioners, detergents, toilets, light bulbs, televisions, etc.
The days of a BETTER mousetrap are gone, and the government will insist that you switch to something newer (but not necessarily better).
She needs to open a deli in Newburgh, NY.
Read it. Way better written than this pile of words.
Every day I swear I’m going to throw in the towel and go back to COBOL.
She actually got mad at me because I wanted a 50 page document printed instead of just on the screen.
Customers don’t always know what they want, but there are ways to find out what they are willing to pay for, before going through the effort of creating products.
The users with the most needs are always the ones who either skip the design meetings or just plain assume you know what they wanted. We had repeated design meetings and they never said a word.
A wise programmer once said to me “I just wrote the code. I don’t know how it actually works because I don’t use it.” So true.
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