I work at a place now that was having one of their own highly publicized tech conferences open to developers outside of the company. \u00a0There was tech lectures, and food, and coding contests. \u00a0Some of it was recruiting, and some of it was jst to be in the “tech game” – creating a company profile in the world. \u00a0I think its a good idea.<\/p>\n
The FTE developers talked about it and some were volunteering, we received a lot of emails about it, and the managers would mention it often and be respectful asking if we’d like to attend. \u00a0All in all, I thought this pretty damn cool and I blew a Saturday morning to take in a few lectures and just make face.<\/p>\n
Contrast this.<\/p>\n
Another place where I worked on a gig a while back had a tech event much like this, but even HIGHER profile. \u00a0The technologies included mobile which is a monstrous topic these days. \u00a0Their even had national web ads.<\/p>\n
But inside the shop we heard nothing about it. \u00a0I heard about the event through another tech group outside the company. \u00a0No emails, and management said nothing at the meetings about it to their developers. \u00a0Finally, a few days before I mentioned something to a fellow coder and he said “yes me, she, and the manager are going together.” \u00a0Knowing the manager I knew he and she weren’t favorites, and I found it curious and sad. \u00a0This director said nothing to any of us, in fact, did not seem interested in even discussing it when I mentioned it later that day. Turnout from the company tech staff was low, very low.<\/p>\n
Missed opportunites.<\/p>\n
Building team coherence, knowledge, and education is the job of the management and company. \u00a0We as grunts do our part but we can’t be the cheerleaders — that takes time and skill too. \u00a0I found the second company to go out of their way to be non-inclusive. \u00a0You could see the effects in both companies of their team policies and the tech events were good vetting tools in the laboratory.<\/p>\n
In the “good” company we have a great code base. \u00a0Tons of tests, communication, ideas. \u00a0Less stress. \u00a0Its fun to work at and we are productive as hell.<\/p>\n
At the “bad’ company the code base was poor — tons of MVC’s in the UI layer for instance, poor communication, distrust, no test base (means fast checkins and breakage).<\/p>\n
This discussion goes all the way up to the top of the type of culture generated by management for a coder to work in. \u00a0It does matter, because many skills besides understanding Hash Maps and Event Dispatchers comes into play when writing code.<\/p>\n
I highly, highly suggest that a team shares tech knowledge for events in a respectful manner to each other; it really helps build the quality of your code. \u00a0And that means cheaper, better code that works and keeps customers.<\/p>\n
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