Comments on: Original developers and non-workaholics beware

By: There’s only one workaholic here, me!

There’s only one workaholic here, me! — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:10:14 +0000

[...] (17 really good tips). It has since been updated. Within 24 hours, Robert Scoble, 37signals, Dennis Martinez (the Puerto Rican Rails Dude) and others posted their responses. While reactions varied, they all [...]

By: Mike Mason » Fire your dev teams (reprise)

Mike Mason » Fire your dev teams (reprise) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:49:54 +0000

[...] more appropriate skills? IT is not a commodity, developers often do not span these multiple roles. Dennis Martinez blames IT management for having the wrong developers, but based on the responses I had to my first [...]

By: Roland Eck

Roland Eck — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:10:04 +0000

You make some very interesting points there bud. My last job I worked as a Java developer for a start-up actually. They were actually a pretty good startup (had lots of money to pay us well, had some good clients, and they had a fair amount of their product functional, and their product was also pretty neat). Its debatable what you say about the whole startup and workaholic deal. Working at a startup usually is more work than at an established company because they are understaffed and trying to hit the tight deadlines for milestones, but you know, there are deadlines everyone in any business, and when the time approaches for those deadlines you have to meet the hours as a team, usually thats when you have to work the overtime – that’s just everywhere. But yeah, as for the slavedriver companies, its best to steer clear of those… you can get a sense of all of that stuff right away though before you accept a job offer, you will know what environment they foster, so my advice on that, is be smart on what you accept, but on the other hand its also good experience to get a sense of different environments, and then once you worked in different places you can pick and choose what you like best.