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by valuearb
3091 days ago
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I haven’t paid the author a dime, but did just sign up to get the free chapter of the book, i recommend you read it because it’s his actual advice. My review was it’s pretty good, a bit rushed/compressed, but his advice is very straightforward and all focused on getting more and better work done for your company, how much more team oriented does it get than that? BTW i didn’t see any marketing claim on his site that he’ll magically turn you into a 10x developer, but googling found this blog. Read it and try to tell me it’s advice isn’t good or that it’s “corrosive” in any way to the team. http://www.effectiveengineer.com/blog/how-to-become-a-10x-en... |
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First let me look up the author. Let me also just say that I have nothing against this author. I respect his entrepreneurial spirit and I believe he has a great future. But I deeply believe this sales page here is just plain wrong https://www.effectiveengineer.com/book and I strongly feel that experienced people like myself have to speak up when situation calls for it. It is fundamentally sleazy thing to do to other younger minds seeking proper guidance in the tech valley.
Authors resume
https://angel.co/edmondlau
First things I noticed. This person has not stayed at any company for more than 3 years. No strong engineering role titles like architecture or design or scaling roles. Mostly soft engineering roles like testing and growth hacking. as a 30 year experienced person like yourself ask yourself. What kind of serious engineering product can one build in that time period at a company with that roles and how many? In many respectable companies I worked for, a person with this experience level cannot even hire/fire people, interviewing someone is not same as hiring.
Next look at the the github profile vs quora profile.
https://github.com/edmondlau
https://www.quora.com/profile/Edmond-Lau
You can notice, this person is more of a content writer compared to code writer. What sort of engineering skills and expertise do you notice about the author that makes him write a sales page like this?.
https://www.effectiveengineer.com/book
Just like how I said it before, this is an effective nonsense garbage content marketing. The author has no qualifications to be writing a book on effective engineering. It is an insult to people who do actual engineering.
This person is milking his past job experience role at brand name companies to an irresponsible extent. This is not illegal but a very sleazy thing to do.
To people who really care about this topic, please get a good mentor in and around your workplace. Just do not fall for this click baits and gossip about tech companies does not make you effective anything. Engineering skill takes a lot of practice and patience, I am afraid there are no secrets and shortcuts.