Sr. Software Engineer at CallRail building microservices to support 3rd party integrations. PhD student at the University of Nebraska studying bioinformatics, machine learning, and algorithms.
Thanks for writing this; given everything you've seen from this fiasco, I can imagine you were a little nervous to hit the publish button.
There's a lot of insight in your assessment of his response being rooted in biases, consciously or not. I hadn't even thought of that before I read your article--I interpreted the whole thing as someone being overly sensitive to criticism.
I think we have way too much of a hero-worship culture in this industry. People start thinking a good engineer is irreproachable because of their coding skills, but no one is free from criticism and no one is done growing/improving.
Thanks again for writing.
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Thanks for writing this; given everything you've seen from this fiasco, I can imagine you were a little nervous to hit the publish button.
There's a lot of insight in your assessment of his response being rooted in biases, consciously or not. I hadn't even thought of that before I read your article--I interpreted the whole thing as someone being overly sensitive to criticism.
I think we have way too much of a hero-worship culture in this industry. People start thinking a good engineer is irreproachable because of their coding skills, but no one is free from criticism and no one is done growing/improving.
Thanks again for writing.