On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Paul Kevin <paultitude@gmail.com> wrote:

I agree on the flexible hours part. Sometimes we prefer to work late night and not show up at 9 am just coz we have to, thats crap. But atleast I get to walk around in socks

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Okechukwu <okechukwu@gmail.com> wrote:

When u realize that, then its time to move on and allow the younger
generation to take your place :-)

./Ok3ch

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am one frustrated developer (yes yes I know I am not supposed to call
> myself a developer but WTH!).
>
> Why is it so difficult for these large formal companies to appreciate the
> facts that:
>
> 1. Give your programmers a nice office preferably with views of the sky or
> traffic
> 2. Allow them to dress down most of the time
> 3. Allow them to work flexible hours, i.e. focus more on the products they
> produce than the time they spend seated at their desks
> 4. Give them the tools, hardware and software, that they crave
> 5. Give them an immediate boss who knows his/her stuff
> 6. Pay them just well enough to enable them NOT worry about the cost of
> living but not so well that they start thinking of buying a BMW X3
>
> Then, challenging the living daylights out of them will almost inevitably
> lead to unique and innovative products that will earn the company lots of
> money/customers/street cred etc
>
> Or am I living in some sort of code induced coma?
>
> I would love to know how the developers at AT, Craft Silicon, Virtual City
> work... :-)
>

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