An Experiment in Scotch

One meet­ing at a time.  It’s truly amaz­ing how big com­pa­nies just don’t seem to com­pre­hend what makes devel­op­ers happy.  Instead, they tend to go out of their way to make them unhappy.  My com­pany is no different.  This list is a pretty good start on ways to make your pro­gram­mers unhappy.

Around here, peo­ple get pro­moted to their high­est level of incom­pe­tence and the really good devel­op­ers get to do things like develop process (mmm process, it tastes good with Ranch) for the rest of the depart­ment or eval­u­ate tools for the rest of the department.  None of which sounds par­tic­u­larly inter­est­ing or use­ful to my long-term career goals.

I fight through the over­head and some days, I really get good stuff done.  Most of the time though, I develop my excep­tional tal­ent at day-dreaming while look­ing interested.  At least, I think I look interested.

UPDATE: This post was writ­ten two years ago. I’m doing some cleanup on cat­e­go­riza­tion so if it show up in your news­reader, that’s why.