Comment by KellyCriterion
1 month ago
Yes, but it goes more far than that: You will have to participate in meetings, you will be asked to joing for a lunch, you will be asked to contact a customer/devcontact there, you will be asked to attend some events, you will be asked to communicate with others etc.
You are not existing as isolated particle in vacuum behind your screen :-)
IDK, at many large orgs...there are developers that essentially communicate through "tickets" and "their lead"... and Def never talk to "business" people or customers. It's not very rare if you get a large enough org.
In other large orgs, the managers are in a parallel universe playing status games while the devs self-organize to get anything done. The soft skills involved in doing that wind up being completely invisible to the status universe.
> The soft skills involved in doing that wind up being completely invisible to the status universe.
Are you referring to the work the managers are doing or the devs are doing as being invisible?
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I have seen a number of organizations throughout my 20 ish year career that have a policy of “developers don’t meet with customers”.
I am not endorsing it and I think it’s poor form, but it absolutely exists. You are in a weird bubble if you think there haven’t been engineering jobs where a dev could only care about code.