Timeline for Does taking hands-on job damage opportunity later?
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| Oct 21, 2021 at 11:52 | comment | added | Petter TB | No arguments there. This also goes for the sales/marketing and the softer side of R&D. Eat your own dog food. | |
| Oct 20, 2021 at 13:07 | comment | added | Mad Physicist | @PetterTB. True that making your engineers work the floor during crunch time is a huge waste. At the same time, having your engineers participate in deployment and testing of their designs, even as an observer, is both educational and fulfilling. I know too many engineers that haven't seen the end product of their designs enough to be good at their jobs. | |
| Oct 20, 2021 at 9:58 | comment | added | Petter TB | Agree with Nick here. This is also what happened at my old employer, the engineers were not expected to do factory work after that first rotation. I think "lets use the engineers as crunch time workers" is one of those things that sound better than they work irl (paper tiger, as we say in Norway). Sounds to me that you need a few good unions, not a hassle for the engineering staff ;) | |
| Oct 19, 2021 at 5:56 | comment | added | nick012000 | @Harper-ReinstateMonica A better analogy for that would be Amazon sending their new engineers to work with the warehouse drone maintenance guys for a bit before assigning them to building better drones. | |
| Oct 19, 2021 at 4:36 | comment | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | Yeah, if Amazon did that between platform engineers and the actual fulfillment centers, make the engineers work on the floor picking orders during the holiday season, their systems would work much better! | |
| Oct 18, 2021 at 14:21 | history | answered | Petter TB | CC BY-SA 4.0 |