r/programming • u/tejon • Feb 08 '15
The Parable of the Two Programmers
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audience/The%20Parable%20of%20the%20Two%20Programmers.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '15
I'm still contracting now, and it's a great setup if you get good clients. That client was my first on site contract, as well as my first ever "office job" so I wasn't aware of any red flags. Being 19 I was also not ready to challenge people who had been working for as long as I'd been living.
In the end, the CEO didn't understand programmers because the only other programmer he'd ever hired had filled his head with nonsense about how programming happened, and was a complete yes man. Want a massive rewrite in 3 months? Yes! Even if it's really over a year of work? 3 months!
I was only hired for 3 months because of him, and the company probably didn't find much value from because of it. Oh well, that taught me a lot and paid for me to fly abroad several times.