mobiuscog

I think it has a much better approach for management.

Well worth reading.

Your site is nicely progressive apart from the:

"Attach notes to your"

I spent a good minute wondering what I was meant to attach them to ;)

You just do everything you're asked to, in order that the business makes money - code ? Meh, anyone can do that.

How many other professions suffer the need to be 'cross-functional' ?

Of course a Software engineer is paid to write code - if they're not, you probably want a different person.

Maybe we need a new job title: "Business Value Expander"

Requirements: Glue together everything else that's already been written by other people, and make the business rich.

What could possibly go wrong.

Single file executable. Job done.

Of course, if you want to write something in Rust, it's not much use.

    No matter what you think the specs say, the fact is the software and hardware are so well integrated
      it tears strips off "superior spec'd" Windows counterparts in the real world.
    This has always been true of Macs.

I mention it as a copy/paste mechanism as I am surrounded by people who use it for that very purpose.

I also did have the knowledge required for the job I applied for, and whilst I have learned a lot (off my own back) over the last 18+ years, very little of it is actually required, as demonstrated by those others who get given similar tasks that they can complete using Stack Overflow.

I'm definitely in the wrong place, and after a while I sense I lost a lot of perspective due to my peers / surroundings.

Personally, I never use downvotes for things I disagree with, but perhaps some people who are luckier to work in better scenarios believe that situations like mine don't exist - I don't wish anybody to walk in my shoes.

Thank you. I appreciate you taking the time to explain.

Fair enough.

Thank you for your verbose reply - I'll reflect on it.

Then again, I don't really use SO anyway - I know somepeople use it daily.

It's far more useful than the current University arrangement, where 'everyone' gets to pay money to drink for 3 years (whilst studying) and then either drop back into the market looking for useful work, or go on to spend even more time making Academia seem worthwhile.

We used to be world leaders in engineering and production in the UK - now we just have students everywhere, with no jobs to go to as we import pretty much everything.

Okay - slightly over-dramatic, but at least Dyson is trying to do something useful.

You obviously have a process to build new images... why doesn't the same process prune old ones ?

What the business needs, will never be the best way to become good.

By all means shove stuff out the door quickly at work, as you'll then be fully startup-ready.

Just spend your own time learning from first principles and actually understanding how things work.

"No one knows what he can do till he tries"

Because I'm not a performing animal.

This doesn't help when talking about alignment.

You say that replying to everyone isn't a good use of your time, but having to apply to everyone, with the likelihood of being ignored apparently is a good use of my time ? My time is just as valuable as yours.

The Github idea is great... except there's no way I can magic up a project 'relevant to the company' for all of the applications I'm making - which I have to be making because nobody replies any more. I'm certainly looking to get some projects going in my spare time, which is minimal.

I'm too old to 'stand' out - if 20 years of programming isn't enough to get a more personal interview, then I'll just move on - I have no interest in competing with people from a marketing perspective.

Of course, I don't expect us to agree, as we're coming from completely different sides (and requirements).

In the modern world, it's amazing how many old-school (Business time is more valuable than employee) mindsets still exist.

Thanks for taking the time to reply though. I genuinely do appreciate that.