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  • dartos@reddthat.comtoMemes@lemmy.mlEvery day, EVERY - DAY
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    1 year ago

    You didn’t present any ideas or solutions to argue against. There’s no argument happening here.

    Nor are there strawmen because there’s no argument being made.

    You said that there’s generally a lack of imagination with regards to this stuff and I was just sharing my opinions as to why.


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    I think most people (correctly imo) don’t see how a large enough company can operate without some hierarchy, which seems to run up against the idea of being entirely equally employee owned.

    There’s always going to be leaders (manager or just someone who others listen to) That person necessarily has more responsibility and control than his peers and is justly compensated more (otherwise nobody would put in extra work, say, to train as an engineer or doctor)

    That person has their own interests that don’t always line up with the company and may use their influence to guide the company in a way that benefits them.

    Suddenly you have a worker class and a bourgeois-esque class.

    Most people (incorrectly imo) think that the “unbiased” checks and balances in government counteract that.

    If there’s another option that accounts for hierarchies in large employee owned and operated companies let me know…. please

    EDIT: large as in number of employees
















  • I have to disagree. I’ve been conducting interviews for a fairly large software shop (~2000 engineers) for about 3 years now and, unless I’m doing an intern or very entry level interview, I don’t care what language they use (both personally and from a company interviewer policy), as long as they can show me they understand the principles behind the interview question (usually the design of a small file system or web app)

    Most devs with a good understanding of underlying principles will be able to start working on meaningful tasks in a number of days.

    It’s the candidates who spent their time deep diving into a specific tool or framework (like leaving a rails/react boot camp or something) that have the hardest time adjusting to new tools.

    Plus when your language/framework falls out of favor, you’re left without much recourse.