Fr3dd1

I am myself a software engineer / team lead in germany ("near" cologne).

A lot of what you said is correct I guess. In the US your potentially salary is a lot higher. Although if you plan to move to germany, bavaria is a good spot. Salary there is (at least what I know), higher than in the rest of the country.

One thing that I would add to the equation is job safety. In germany you have a pretty high job safety and it is especially hard to get someone out of the job.

But maybe you get both, a living near your wifes family and the support and a good paid remote job in some big US corp (if you prefer that).

I would not say 100% dysfunctional. I had a similar case in my company. I was looking for a new team member. Found 2 persons but only had one open position. I referred one of the candidates to another team lead who wanted to talk with that person before an offer was made. In my opinion thats totally fine.

I can kind of understand what you are saying. However some points I guess cant be true (at least I hope). In a company with around 350 devs I would say there should be at least one other dev who is "really good". In my experience there are devs like you, who just get a lot of work done in a good quality and there are other devs who enable others. They themselves dont commit that often or get a lot of stories done because they are a lot in pair programming sessions or otherwise connected with others. Maybe you can try and look if you find someone like this in your company.

Although a little bit polemic I like the article. I wrote a comment a few days ago that kind of hit the same note.

Almost all developers I know can make things work. They get the job done and thats fine. Like some people here wrote, for many applications thats enough. But already one "level" higher, density gets way lower. I only have my subjective feelings but as far as I can tell, developers who not only get things done but have a okayish code quality and an acceptable test coverage are so much more rare. True software master craftsman are almost not existing.

I guess our view of the software industry here is a bit distorted. Naturally people who are active here (or on other sites) dont represent the big mass of software developers. The top people in our software industry can keep it up with the top people of other industries (at least I hope and think so) but the entry and average level is not on the same level as the entry or average level in other industries. Thats where good and structured qualification paths can help.

Everything you wrote is correct. But still, if your product does not transparently show and alert such events, overall product quality is in my opinion bad. Dev or lead or product manager should not be ok with this. But this pretty mich reflects current state of software development. Errors and stuff are in way too many cases "ok" to occure.

Well, I am sorry but in my eyes this just shows bad product quality, bad transparance and missing understanding of basic business stuff on the side of the product. The only reason for software to be existing is to NOT mandate users to check stuff manually.

Kind of different in germany. I work as a dev team lead for a company that develops billing software for the german energy sector. Its super regulated by the government. For example, depending on the year you got your soloar, the amount of money you get for your energy you bring back into the grid, is different. All has its pros and cons tho

In my opinion there is a lot to learn. And also a lot of usefull / important stuff. But if I had to decide for just one thing, I would say to stay positive and optimistic no matter what.

I guess the best training is experience (I know, maybe not the answer you are looking for). If you hire someone and closely check up on how that person is doing in your company, you can get some feeling about what technical and personal traits are really needed.

I admire your working discipline and stuff but in which way do you think does your answer help the thread owner?

Never saw the connection between the sport and statistics but yeah, its right. Hmm, I get what you mean with that point but it doesnt get me. At the moment I already build stuff for other dev teams at our company.

Sounds good. I actually have one friend who owns a company and I like talking with him about his company and try to advice him.

I alread thought about this (the first part) and I like that Idea, I also like the idea of having my own gym. Most gyms I visited are targeted at the "mainstream" fitness or some reha stuff. Thats not bad but I am missing something thats really targeted at athletes who wanna improve.

I dont know much about this role, will look into it :)

A really good idea. The first part is what I think is not good at the moment. You do something good (develping stuff) and because of that you get promoted and do less of it and more of stuff you are maybe not that great at. PM is definitly something I woll look into, thanks!

Thanks for that input, will look into it but pure teaching, especially professional stuff, sounds not that great to me :)

I think you should just start to act like one. The following are things you could do for example:

- Try to look at the bigger picture during your work

- Engage in discussions about the whole system

- Document the bigger thing

- Maybe build some test solution with important designs that are being used in your project so that new devs can learn with it.

I am not a big fan of measurements because in my opinion measurements are never really objective.

Just tested it, the links work fine.

For 3. you have to look at the difinition of an experienced and a novice developer they used in this study. I think maybe for google the definition fits but not in its general use.