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No questions being asked ( 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder ) And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old softwareengineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. One of your better developers leaves. The last 10% takes the other 90%.
And you thought being a softwareengineer was all about dreaming up clever algorithms or amazing graphics routines and then instantiating them in elegant, tightly written code. It turns out, at least according to a survey conducted by software delivery service Electric Cloud , that developers spend almost 20% of their time.
As in where to build that electric car plant, where to put that server farm, where to assemble that team of softwareengineers. And the rising powers of our age, the Brazils, the Indias, the Chinas, fight not with tanks and guns but with bits and bytes and rent-a-coder and hard work and hustle. This challenge?
But they are also former softwareengineers and hackers, an experience that undoubtedly taught them skills in critical thinking and problem solving. Making savvy business decisions is not only about engineering, but also sales and marketing, business development, recruiting, and all the other functions of business.
Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. I’ve had 7 jobs in Silicon Valley in software development companies, but 6 of the 7 were in business development. Drupal and PHP were tools I’ve acknowledged for a decade but never studied much.
Roles, such as softwareengineer, user experience designer and product manager, come with narrow and explicitly-assumed responsibilities. For example, softwareengineering write code. Conversely, input on coding decisions have also become open to non-coders.
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There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing softwareengineers since the 90s. I’m not saying that a softwareengineer candidate shouldn’t code at an interview. Well, you get my point. I want to see a blog and/or a Twitter account.
We don’t shoot out of our mothers ready to become softwareengineers. It shouldn’t really matter if you’re great coder or art designer or project manager. And, when I last checked, neither selling nor product marketing was on typical coder’s list of strengths. Heinlein #5 A-ron on 02.03.10
I do disagree about two other points: First, this isn't the "quora rockstar engineer" perspective. It's my perspective as well and I'm not a softwareengineer let alone a rockstar. When Zuckerberg started Thefacebook.com he was a PHP coder (translation: not a real developer). You, a creative guy?
But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.
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But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Too many people leave their business decisions to coders and designers.
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