Many upper level managers seem to be blind to the fact that the kind of person who can actually excel as a "do it all" is most likely not the kind of person that wants to work in that kind of environment. Those people will do a year or two pulling down a salary while they are also spinning up a side project, and then they'll bolt as soon as they can. It sounds like a recipe for constant employee churn, leaving behind a wake of fragile code.
replyI'm only writing this because Devil's advocate and all, but what if you're actually capable of all those things?
replyPlenty of us here can conceive, design, architect, build, ship and own things from soup to nuts, and feel a lot more invested in the result as a consequence.
If the compensation is good, and it feels less shackled and less bureaucratic, is that necessarily a bad thing?
The kinds of people who really can do all three always have options. It means you end up with a lot of turnover in these types of teams.
replySeriously. Why is everyone just silently accepting this?
replyWhat is the alternative
replyStart your own company. If you’re already doing everything yourself then you don’t need to do it for someone else.
replyStarting a company needs a lot more than those three skills. Plenty of people choose a pay packet with less stress.
replyMany founders recycle into tech jobs after they discover exactly why failure rates of startups are so brutal. Apparently 15-25% of employees aged 30–39 at major SV companies have a failed or acquihired startup in their history. Golden handcuffs can appear very pretty after you've missed out on striking gold by yourself.
Organized labor
replyHistory has always been kind to inefficient systems organizing together for protection /s
replyEfficient system is when worker does work of 5 people for the same salary and CEO makes billions.
replyI'm not arguing what defines inefficient in these situations, just that "if we group together we'll be okay" for tech workers will go about as well as 1960's longshoreman unionization
replyBeatings will continue until morale improves
replyWell, yeah. As an employee in general one isn't that bothered about profit. As long as one's own job is safe and the jobs of the people one's close to.
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