For the randos in my mentions: here is the 2015 McKinsey study showing racially diverse teams outperformed by 35%: https://hbr.org/2016/11/why-diverse-teams-are-smarter …
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Replying to @seldo
The same study showed gender-diverse teams outperformed by 15%.
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Replying to @seldo
As a software engineer I'm aware that most of the time you aren't working in a team, and the difference in performance from one...
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Replying to @plutonyum241
What on earth kind of software engineering do you do that you aren't working in a team?
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Replying to @seldo
There's a "team" of 20-ish engineers. But the work doesn't happen that way, that's basically a mythology. ...
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Replying to @plutonyum241
I think the fact that you work in a group of 20 people and don't consider them your team says more about you than software engineering.
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Replying to @seldo
No. It really can't. You can't discuss the details of all your code, it would take 5 times longer. It's a characteristic of the industry.
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Replying to @plutonyum241 @seldo
Actually writing code has never been more than 20-30% of my hours. The rest is eg requirements research, planning, and emails - teamwork.
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Replying to @damian0815 @seldo
Yes. That's fine. The exact proportion isnt relevant as long as it is a significant proportion. It varies anyway.
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Replying to @plutonyum241 @seldo
70-80% of the work I do involves talking to other humans. I thought you said that teams aren’t important in code?
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Absolutely agree, and I think this ratio & awareness of it is pretty essential to writing remotely decent code.
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Replying to @RichFelker @damian0815 and
Otherwise you write too much code, it does the wrong thing, & you don't want to throw it out & replace it because you're so invested in it.
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