“Just stay away from tech” is the conclusion a lot of the people I know have come to. The field in general is really bad. Especially from the outside. Once you’re inside and being highly paid to basically keep your eyes closed it’s not so bad, I guess.
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I really have no ponies in this race anymore. I’m telling it like it is - and the truly good companies will appreciate it because they won’t fit any of these patterns.
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You are taking your life experience and stretching into general, widely-cast nets over the entire industry. You do you, but I'm just telling, I disagree, I know the industry as well as you do, I know companies and people, and my view is that there are no categories.
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I'll say that even experience within single company can vary from office to office, from studio to studio. I heard people on twitter are praising company where I worked at 30C in office, abusive lead, who drank during office hours and HR turning blind eye on situation.
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Totally. In fact if you ask two different ppl from a team their experience about how the team works, chances are they will give totally different answers. Unless things are way off the average
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That’s also why I never care about ppl opinions of other people or jobs. Unless I know them well and I know they think like me, experiences simply do not translate to other ppl. I learned this “early” since university, where ppl’s opinions of professors proved to be unreliable
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Exactly everything depends on specific circumstances. My friend was in good relationship with that lead, was held in high regards and it was totally different for him, though he has other complaints about that company, like climate in office or low salary.
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"There are no categories" - this isn't true. I've seen many of these patterns repeated over and over again. I've had replies right here on Twitter confirming some of them. I've seen multiple instances of many of the company types I've pointed out.
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The are companies formed by 1+ manipulators out there that will exploit developers. There are abusive publishers who help fund or start companies who work their employees to death. There are many firms that work with 2+ publishers who lie about what the devs do. It's what happens
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Sure, but starting a post as "This can be helpful to think about" and then everything to follow is "this is crap" or "this can be good, but it never ever lasts" isn't actually helpful IMO.
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Now... what I could see helpful is recognizing that there are different types of companies that can fit different personalities better. Then recognizing various traps each type of company can fall into and helping people avoid those.
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I really don't think there are types of companies. I mean, there might be certain stereotypes that you can encounter often, but definitely there is no "AAA" bucket for example, all AAA teams I worked with were -very- different. There are certain principles that are useful to know
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for example, what a publicly traded company is and how it operates. These are even legal categories, and they do impose different kinds of pressures. But how you deal with them is entirely up to the company. Even within a single team, some groups can be great and some less so!
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