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[The] main problem here is that software development is not an individual sport. Assessing technical traits means that we are looking at candidates as individuals. At the same time, we will put them in a team context and the project's success will depend on their teamwork. A person's resume or LinkedIn profile says close to nothing about their team skills.
What's more, we know quite a lot about what makes teams effective. Anita Woolley's research on collective intelligence [DOI: 10.1126/science.1193147] [DX] provides extremely valuable insight on the topic. First of all, how do we define collective intelligence? It's basically the skill of a group to solve complex problems. Well, it sounds like the definition of everyday work for software development teams if you ask me.
Why is collective intelligence so important? Exploiting collective intelligence, as opposed to going with the opinion of the smartest person in a room, is a winning strategy. To put in Anita Woolley's words: "Collective intelligence was much more predictive in terms of succeeding in complex tasks than average individual intelligence or maximal individual intelligence."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Sunday September 24 2017, @05:49PM (4 children)
The older I grow, the more I prefer coding as a wank to coding as an orgy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday September 24 2017, @06:35PM (3 children)
Now that I'm coding for a living, I've lost all passion for it. Not working with my hands anymore is bad enough, but before I really didn't see how shitty documentation is, even on big projects. Programmers are autistic retards and If I see one more page of shitty documentation I'm going to go to their house and choke the living shit out of them. Makes me wish I would have went to get my ASE certification instead of a B.S. -- because that way I would actually learn something useful and be able to get actual work done.
I was never one of those abusive prima donna types, but programming for a living is very quickly turning me into one.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Sunday September 24 2017, @07:53PM
Dammit, Eth, don't let'em cost you your sweet disposition.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Monday September 25 2017, @10:37AM
Funny, since I started to work with programming I got more humble and started to rely on documentation written with an austic degree of accuracy.
Then again - I work in infrastructure ;)
(Bit less tounge in cheek - toss a CV at GE, Boeing, Bombardier(can) and similar. Be warned however, engineers are trained in being precise and to document everything, and engineers with extra training in programming are darn near awe-inspiring.
Just remember that you no more would want Westinghouse to write an MMORPG than you'd want Blizzard to write the controlsystem for a nuclear reactor)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday September 25 2017, @12:54PM
Your ASE is going to turn to coding and electrical engineering in the next 20 years - the carburetor is already dead in the (real) commercial market, and working on antiques is a lot like making buggy whips.
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