[randmeerkat]

> Bad at the game, bad at engineering, but good at marketing. There's a lesson in here. Similar to how most of the software that runs the internet is poorly written and has bad fundamentals.

Maybe now we can get rid of Byzantine tech interview processes and instead just focus on hiring people that are capable of hacking things together.

[fbdab103]

>..focus on hiring people that are capable of hacking things together.

Based on my daily frustrations with basically every piece of software, that already appears to be the status quo.

[randmeerkat]

> Based on my daily frustrations with basically every piece of software, that already appears to be the status quo.

That’s the kind of elitist thinking that leads to Byzantine tech interviews and poor collaboration.

[SideQuark]

Black and white thinking that leads people to decry "elitist thinking" is exactly a signal of a person I never want to work with, because such un-nuanced understanding of tradeoffs required to work on professional projects is demonstrably beyond their current understanding of things that do exist for good reason.

"Hacked together" is the software equivalent of fixing things with duct tape. It sounds cool and fun, and is fun to do for your own playthings, but it is a terrible mentality for developing solid projects.

[fbdab103]

That was more a commentary on hate-the-game not the playa. Lots of smart and talented people in the field, yet software coming out the door routinely has egregious usability and performance defects. Bizarre prioritization of features that are dictated by anything other than end-user needs.

Edit: remove the dig at management which is too easy a scapegoat to explain all ills