How many of you actually have technically intelligent management
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SciGama wrote:
As i am looking for a new job, I am interviewing them as well as them interviewing me. What do you guys think?
it's a good idea. but be careful: some people do not like it known that they don't know everything.
Chris Losinger wrote:
some people do not like it known that they don't know everything
Nobody knows everything. Not even about their own field. Do you really want to work for someone who isn't secure enough to admit there is something they have yet to learn? Those folks who don't like it to be known they have a knowledge gap are flat out dangerous, both to your career and to the company as a whole. And to the original question, yes, I am lucky enough to have technically intelligent management.
patbob
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Our company is like Robert A. Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers” – everyone jumps from the ship and fights, even the generals and cooks. All managers and vice-presidents are heavily experienced programmers and are in the trenches along with the seniors and juniors.
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
That's because Startship Troopers were Marines. Every Marine is a fighter first.
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Or even those that can understand what the software process is like. I have been at numerous places where technical ignorance was very high and then when I would attempt to teach them they would still move ahead with their agenda. In other words not listen. As i am looking for a new job, I am interviewing them as well as them interviewing me. What do you guys think?
what a shame :P i dont understand how people thinks about technic, software, process, etc... If they dont care my ideas(like them), i dont lose anything(like you), they lose(like them). I just remember a thing about this, look: A biolog assumes he is a chemist, chemist assumes he is a physicist, physicist assumes he is the God (God forbid! never). But the God assumes he is a mathematician. As you see, math never tells lie, it is always listen to you. You can be a mathematician :)
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Or even those that can understand what the software process is like. I have been at numerous places where technical ignorance was very high and then when I would attempt to teach them they would still move ahead with their agenda. In other words not listen. As i am looking for a new job, I am interviewing them as well as them interviewing me. What do you guys think?
I've run into the opposite problem - Technically brilliant, but lacking management skills. The best developer gets promoted to be the manager, because he's such a great developer. But he doesn't have the organizational skills, and the people skills to be in that role. The required skills for development lead, versus developer are very different. So now you have an ineffective manager, and you've lost your best developer. Has anyone else encountered this?
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Or a Bank, in the technical departments they tend to be very good.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
A Bank! Aren't they still using Cobol? They were the ones were were most concerned about the Y2K problem. Will the banks also have the Y2k38 problem?
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I've had a few in the past that were very technically intelligent. But, it didn't always guarantee a great work environment or a receptive attitude. The best two bosses I've had were not technically bright but, sincerely trusted us to do our job. And, when office politics trumped technical superiority they explained it to us and tried to help us make the most of the situation. So, to me technical intelligence is a nice trait for a boss but, a boss that I can trust to have my back and allow me to do my work is far more important.
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
Well said and I agree totally.
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A Bank! Aren't they still using Cobol? They were the ones were were most concerned about the Y2K problem. Will the banks also have the Y2k38 problem?
Cobol - yup for their core banking systems many of them are. Like the trading system MS attempted to build in the UK recently the new tech is just not fast enough and for core banking speed and stability is paramount. Now for their peripheral systems it is another matter. Banks and finance as an industry love their software, they are always there for the long term and they tend to understand the returns from software better.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH