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Technorati Tags: Management,Workplace,Opinion I’ll be frank. I’ve worked for some real dumb assholes (in the past) as have many I’m sure. And several of these managers or leads fallen into one of these categories: a) Dumb but very nice (should never be in a management or lead position). Got there from kissing ass or got lucky. b) Dumb, overly nice 99% of the time, but blows up suddenly when things do not go well turning into dumb assholes c) Dumb & Complete Assholes all the time d) Smart and Complete Assholes all the time...
I will give no explanation, because I think they speak for themselves, but here are some failures & Successes from Microsoft.
Failures
(not wasting my time on these, they just don’t let me easily and openly code good ORM, Patterns, etc. period)
* Typed DataSets
* SharePoint 2003 & 2007
Technorati: Interviewing, Opinion, People, Job Searching If you're like me and have been in the IT industry for 5+ years (me 10), you start to realize that the grass is not always greener on the other side in a lot of shops out there. Before I get to the interview questions, I want to start by outlining the general types of shops and types of problems one can encounter in development shops. Characteristics of when the grass may NOT...
Technorati Tags: Opinion,Management,Teamwork I find it astounding how many development shops (from talking to many people over the years including my own experiences) frustrate the hell out of its own very motivated developers and push very good developers away literally. Pushing them away because a manager or set of managers are too stubborn and fail often to truly listen to the very people who they have hired to "do a great job" and to "give advice on what can be improved in order to benefit the business". Or maybe a manager has talked the talked but not walked the...
I always love it when a fellow developer tells you at times he/she "doesn't recall" or "doesn't know" when you ask them a question (after doing your own research) based on something they clearly have done in the past (which is why you are asking them in the first place). Maybe that person you are asking had mentioned it to the team at some point, or maybe you know that in the past that they have done something like that, or maybe you even see it in use on their own web site. Whatever the case