Maybe not a computer scientist, but not guilty either.
Posted on 11/29/2016 5:32:51 AM PST by spintreebob
Edited on 11/29/2016 5:48:35 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
LOL
I made it maybe half way through but clearly this person does not belong in the tech business. Tech is hard driven, hard edged, and logic driven. This woman is soft and fuzzy and emotional. I don’t understand why she thought she belonged in tech to begin with. She needed to spend her time on psychology or sociology or some other soft, fuzzy, opinion driven field.
So you want to make American tech great again? Stop forcing tech companies to find positions for muddle brains like this woman. Stop affirmative action and let tech companies compete with the rest of the world unfettered.
No wonder people are so interested in my physicals.
Not every one is cut out to code let alone code well. It is why I preferred being in the lab
True that
While women in the workplace are nothing new, what really seems to sideline many is the fact that with everything evolving so quickly many don’t want to accept that we’re basically learning throughout our whole careers (in any field with a tech angle). At my job it seems the least productive workers are women over 50; most staunchly resist any improvement or increased efficiency to anything they’ve been doing for years. Most also refuse to work a minute of unpaid overtime (as “salaried” workers); as a result, most of us men have done the same.
She sounds like the kind of irritating perfectionist that kills projects. You’ve gotta ship, and yes that means there will be problems. Try hard not to let them be really bad and move on.
Sounds like you might be due for a raise. A big one. And maybe some more vacation. :-)
Instrument design cycles are two years at best. Chips have an eighteen month max turn around. Tech has always been fast paced
“While women in the workplace are nothing new, what really seems to sideline many is the fact that with everything evolving so quickly many don’t want to accept that we’re basically learning throughout our whole careers”
As a woman, I agree. At 52 I LOVE to throw myself into something brand new. Learning something all the time, even if it’s very small. But I’ve always been like that. Never satisfied to sit in a rut....
I’ve never worked well with other women unless they were very, business minded/non-emotional/no BS/tell it like it REALLY is types. It’s rather painful otherwise.
Maybe not a computer scientist, but not guilty either.
“Anything else is simply applying a bandaid.”
You misspelled kluge.
Whatever ping list this is, I want in.
I have been retired many moons. What is this “code” of which you speak?
at my company, www.northeastanalysis.com It’s my job to design the app.
Without me, the programmers would communicate directly with people who have no clue what they want - They just want something and they have nothing to pay for it with.
So I have to spend a full-time effort to make up for it. Without a designer, you’re in a world of hurt. My clients aren’t allowed to talk to my programmers at all - ever. God that would be disastrous. It’s happened before and it cost tens of thousands of dollars.
I’ve stopped programming, a few years ago because I couldn’t handle the heartbreak of my ideas being rejected. Now I run a team who does it.
I have to overcome this issue with my team often. Most of the time I need terrible code on the market because people are paid so much money that I can’t waste time on the good stuff, only for it to be rejected.
I don’t only design a product “with the end in mind”, I have to design each stage of the software as junk. I design junk - on purpose.
In order to avoid the customer mis-communicating what they want, I spoonfeed them code. For the whole year my team is outputting utter garbage.. and when the garbage works, we re-write to make it look good / better.
That’s why I calculate hours of labor, and then double it. Because when the product is done, it’s not really done. We’re only done complying with the client’s insatiable demands.
Not saying they aren’t intelligent people with problem solving ability.....
Just not the base you would use for programming....Good programmers have a very unique focus.....
You could probably cherry pick a small percentage of candidates from the group but their is no way a enmasse program would work....
BTW, manufacturing jobs will come back but on a much smaller scale due to advances in robotics and automation....
Better to re-focus their skils to tradecraft such as Plumbers, electricians, communications techs etc....Once trained, they would have a decent paying job anywhere in the US.
She sounds like she would be happier in QA.
For many engineers, a solution is the goal - being aesthetic, neat, innovative relative to others is a luxury or waste of time. The “there I fixed it” slide shows are classic examples of this.
And she ignores the fact that in the technology market, kudos and market share go to the first to have a feature or product. People know it is evolving, so as long as it mostly does the intended purpose, it is the first to get adopted - and they expect it to improve on later iterations. If you sit around crafting an elegant, complex product, you’ll lose out to the basic version that comes to market first.
Ah...imagine a thing called validation....the things I could tell you from the med device world would send this lady scuttering into the corner and curling up into a ball.
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