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Wednesday Morning's start. Wednesday night's post, just previous, didn't leave my phone until i woke up.
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So, to empower my imagination about possibility as well as to ground myself in reality, i'm thinking of the questions i'd like to ask folks who work in tech. I'm hoping i can say, "I know that i could do a job like [title] in [industry]," as well as say, "The job i'm doing now is more like [title] and less like [title] because i deal with [tasks]."
The first person i will send these to works for an international firm but also worked for a start up. Answers welcome from anyone!
When i was hired about ten years ago, the company didn't have a particular job opening. I had visited to present about a project I had been working on at the Internet Archive. They recognized i would be a good fit, so they created the role of "Special Projects Analyst." After six months, they recognized the leadership role i was taking, and promoted me to "Special Projects Manager." Since then i've been a direct manager for both programmers and operations staff, i've managed development projects, infrastructure projects, and the operations of a data center. "Management" is a overloaded term that can involve leadership, team building, strategic planning, tactical planning, and logistics in different mixes.
What i'm curious about is how roles are split in your experience and what skills are valued in the different roles.
Are the managers to whom developers report in your company and the previous one, expected to have been computer science trained and have been programmers themselves? Are they mostly hired up from the developers?
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So, to empower my imagination about possibility as well as to ground myself in reality, i'm thinking of the questions i'd like to ask folks who work in tech. I'm hoping i can say, "I know that i could do a job like [title] in [industry]," as well as say, "The job i'm doing now is more like [title] and less like [title] because i deal with [tasks]."
The first person i will send these to works for an international firm but also worked for a start up. Answers welcome from anyone!
When i was hired about ten years ago, the company didn't have a particular job opening. I had visited to present about a project I had been working on at the Internet Archive. They recognized i would be a good fit, so they created the role of "Special Projects Analyst." After six months, they recognized the leadership role i was taking, and promoted me to "Special Projects Manager." Since then i've been a direct manager for both programmers and operations staff, i've managed development projects, infrastructure projects, and the operations of a data center. "Management" is a overloaded term that can involve leadership, team building, strategic planning, tactical planning, and logistics in different mixes.
What i'm curious about is how roles are split in your experience and what skills are valued in the different roles.
Are the managers to whom developers report in your company and the previous one, expected to have been computer science trained and have been programmers themselves? Are they mostly hired up from the developers?
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