[LRUG] What do people want to do with their career?

[Andrew Premdas]

On 21 March 2012 23:41, Jon Wood <jon at blankpad.net> wrote:

> We're following what you've called "the Eden way" at Hubbub. Anyone half
> competent can learn a new language and its accompanying frameworks given a
> month or so to get up to speed, but someone without the mindset and passion
> for building software is never going to be a great developer.
>
>
Whilst I agree that mindset and passion are key things for being a good
developer, the idea that you can learn a new language and its frameworks in
a month seems pretty arrogant. Perhaps I have a different definition of
learning or getting upto speed, but I find it a little disturbing that
someone can think they can learn ruby in a month and know it. The same
thing applies with technologies my particular beef is people thinking they
know how to do TDD or BDD after a month.

This doesn't just apply to 'rockstar' devs who implicitly understand nosql
in a week. This attitude is pervasive in our industry where skills are
constantly overstated and at the same time belittled and not appreciated.
Sure you can get a sketch of ruby in a month, and you can speed read War
and Peace in 20 minutes but if you think you in any way done or even
competent with either then your deluded.

Andrew

> On Thursday, 22 March 2012 at 06:47, Anthony Green wrote:
>
>
> I'm continually disappointed by the quality of the recruitment
> offerings. All of which pretty much reduce the posting "to we want a
> code monkey of type Foo with skills x, y and z"
>
> I always admired Eden and Chris Parson's holistic belief when taking on
> staff. For BBC Future Media, the security of our income model means
> there's occasionally room for individuals who share those same values to
> try and emulate Chris' approach.
>
> Is it economic uncertainty that means companies don't follow the Eden
> way or just a lack of maturity in our industry?
>
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> Media Playout
> BBC Future Media
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