Posted on 09/01/2010 8:33:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
LOL - I’ve seen this too. I work for SV company, contractual services work (embedded systems), sometimes I can’t believe some of our customers ever get something out the door (at least working!).
As far as very young engineers: ask him/her to write a detailed design document. Most can’t, and if they can’t do that then what the heck are they coding? Good engineers are more experienced with structure and process, they’re more thorough and produce much more efficient, maintainable code with fewer bugs. And most importantly, a bug can be easily located.
Work for a company where the managers were once/are experienced engineers - that is usually very different than a start up.
As a soon to be layed off 53-year-old, it’s stories like this that turn my stomach.
BUT, because of my experience and skill, I'm much less apt to need to pull an all-nighter.
Younger engineers have less ability to understand process interactions, they simply lack the gut experience to see how a minor change can ripple through the entire shop floor and come back to bite them.
They tend to be like little liberals in that regard, they want to "impeach Bush" but can't foresee the immediate consequence of having President Cheney. Unlike liberals, they can be trained out of it!
A smart company has a mix of enthusiasm and experience. Less healthy companies tend to have either a stable of old nags, or young stallions.
Bah! I'd take a 50% cut just to get back in a wafer fab.
No, you got it right the first time! :)
Watch carefully as all your television advertising turns to animation ~ essentially robots ~ who don't need to be paid!
Ever notice that your "quality auditors" have a touch of gray and a world of experience? They know what the "end users" do and they specialize in catching them at that.
Plus, we had abominable time constraints every now and then ~ 10 days to rewrite several hundred pages in a thousand different ways ~ our problem was you couldn't work that with a team of more than about 10 people, and that was barely enough to get things done in that time. Still, more people just slowed it down.
I know several ways to do the overnighters as needed ~ fortunately i'm retired.
>> to go for new just because it’s new is not always the right thing to do.
No, of course not.
Practicing the *best* approach (whether old or new) is what a true professional is paid to do.
My comment, of course, did not refer to “native americans” = “Indians” = Native Americans. I have no experience with Native American Indians other than a brief trip through a reservation where a few waved at me - well, they seemed friendly enough!
Yes, I understood that, but it was funnier to pretend I didn't! :)
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