| The way you get the job done is also an expression of yourself. There is never only one way to do things. The issue is that if you work for a company like SAP, you most likely don't have enough personal flavour to come to interesting or meaningfull solutions. If you don't have passion, be it even for correctness, you'll build mediocre things. Germany paid SAP millions for their Covid tracking app. Reaearchers had already worked out a protocol for them, apple and google had already implemented it. All they had to do was write a simple frontend and be done. But politicians decided that such a big and important job, needs to go to big and important companies like SAP and T-SYSTEMS, for millions of euros. SAP tried to be cool and agile, they even forced their employees to create github profiles (something none of the had done prior). In the end they delivered a month too late, with critical bugs. And millions of server maintenance fees. A system that was already 90% implemented, with network requirements that can be satisfied by fiber to the home connections, or a single S3 instance. Why? Because they used mediocre people, who didn't have enough passion to create github profiles. Because they used the least common denominator, Java, and reinvented stuff that was already implemented.
And because everybody just wanted to get the job done and go home, no expression of self involved. But hey, I heard they pay good. |