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What a Manager Says vs What a Manager Means

My favorite is the first one about the "team player" thing. Why must you have an emotional attachment to the job? I think the parallel that statement implies is that of a sports team. With players being paid millions of dollars. For that amount of money you can

Managing Programmers

Well, the article is about "geeks", and that can take many facets, but I read "programmer" everywhere it reads "geeks". You can do the same. So, this article is the single best summary of the peculiarities of managing IT people. It's amazing.

Cloud Computing

I can't wait until the term cloud computing finally gets shoved out of the vernacular and relegated to the list of idiotic terms used by a previous and archaic generation. Given that the cyber- affix remains in rampant use by the US government (and not a single private

Baseline the Project Plan

I know people use the term "technobabble", and I certainly hear a lot of talk that fits that description. When conversing with other engineers about a technical subject, such talk is entirely warranted - to effectively (and concisely) communicate. When in a meeting with managers, product and advertising

Follow-Up with the Fruit Company

It was nice to talk to someone other than an HR person. This interview was of a more technical nature, with few questions (only one, really) that pertained at all to my opinion of something - and that was the "ideal job" question. Again. It was easier to

My Favorite "Fruit Company"

My favorite "fruit company" (you'll have to figure this one out on your own) emailed me earlier this week about a job opportunity with them. This was the stuff of dreams for me [quite a few] years back; less so of late. The first step was

Programmer Discrimination

I'm looking at half a dozen new hires. Five males. One female. All Indian. A person inclined to conspiracy theories might wonder if this wasn't coincidental - which conspiratorial tendencies might be fed by the fact that *everyone* else in the office is Indian. Hmm. I

Work and Words

I work with quite a few Indians. Their ability to construct valid sentences and correctly pronounce words varies widely in this office. Several of them who are on the low end of this ability routinely ask me questions. Not once have I understood any of these questions. My response is

Phone Interview Part 2

I nailed it. I did it. Thankfully, there were no complexity analysis questions. The majority of the time was taken with discussing on various levels a single concept - which amounts to what I would describe as open-ended problem solving. And then there was one otherwise off-topic algorithm question, which

Step One

So, I did the phone interview this evening. It was short - less than twenty minutes - and was just technical questions. I admitted up front that I wouldn't succeed with any of the complexity analysis problems, but he insisted on asking them anyway - probably just to

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