That's funny, I'm having a similar experience, but made the opposite assessment. My company has been using TFS for many years, and one of our newer people has brought Jira in for his team and I find it incomprehensible. Besides the UI looking visually outdated in Jira, I find the workflow is incomprehensible. I do see the same workflow issues with the TFS web site that are being highlighted in this thread, but they are minor compared to trying to figure out how to navigate Jira. I think it has a lot to do with what you are used to, I'm sure the reason you get the panicked look is because they are used to the tool they are using today.

Red flag! I think you just wrote the first line of a daily WTF article...

Care to comment on the differences between Screwturn wiki and MediaWiki... It looks interesting, curious if I should spend some time checking it out...

MediaWiki is the way to go... As far as Sharepoint, LOL (and thats from a Microsoft developer that loves Microsoft products.)

Uwe Keim wrote:

Firefox 3.5 took 60 seconds to start

You got lucky, on my machine it was taking 3-4 minutes to start...

Richard Andrew x64 wrote:

On further reflection, I see the larger context of what you're asking. I agree that destructive politics can be mitigated by the right setting, and the right motivators. So what you're asking is not ridiculous, just wasn't clear to me at first. Red faced

It's important for the leaders in a software team to set a good example, by not engaging in destructive politics themselves, and immediately putting a stop to any they see going on. Unfortunately it is usually the leaders that are the worst offenders...

Sadly yes... Although my disclaimer would be that is not the case right now. There are a lot of good developers out of work right now. But 2 years ago when jobs were plentiful this was the case. Even 6 months ago we had a very hard time finding qualified developers.

That is a funny story, from what I've heard the correct answer to this question is that you would call boeing, or look it up on their web site, or something simple, not over engineer a solution... Hearing that he was looking for the wrong answer is a great story.

I know the reason I give these tests is because 90% of the people applying can't answer the simplest programming problem, regardless of experience on their resume, or how well they can talk development.