BSc(Hons) MBCS - Principal Technical Software Engineer with 20 years experience in Senior SDE, SDET and DevOps roles. Ex-Arm, Ex-BBC, Ex-cellent. Also provides pro-bono career mentoring. 🏠
I honestly don't think there is a crisis in hiring 'good' software engineers. There are so many requirements, competition, hoops to jump through and so on, already. I think there is a crisis in hiring 'good' software engineering managers, project managers, and other middle managers, whose job it is to make an environment that is optimal and supportive for software engineers to do their best work. The idea that even a supposed 'rockstar' individual software engineer can make that much difference, or even perform their role satisfactorily at all in a bad or ill-suited environment, is the one that needs to die. #software #industry
Well said David. Fully support your view & extend it to all leaders that need to be enabling the right environment & conditions for talented engineers, developers, analysts, testers, administrators, architects, technicians and any other necessary support roles within a tribe, team, squad or pod, to deliver great software outcomes aligned to business need. I consider myself one, but to reinforce your point, is proving challenging finding an enterprise that recognises the need for such & properly values both the role & experience. The best things in life are often worth endeavour & preservance, however, and that includes the day jobs we spend much of our awake time doing. So will soldier on optimistically in search. Wishing you & others better software engineering experiences with great managers & leaders. 🙂
The best devs don't make the best leaders.....the best sales people don't make the best managers......etc.etc. So right David!
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10moThe systemic dysfunction in many organisations is often the root cause of toxic workplaces. As W E Deming said " a bad system will beat a good person every time".