With much talent, this post echoes with my two years old ramble about dumb standard IT career paths, which start rooted in technicality but then strongly orient people away from it. How stupid is it to pull software developers out of the heart of the battle as soon as they have reach a great level of performance and expertise in order to turn them into frustrated managers?
The system is actually much subtler than that: software developers are teased into pulling themselves out through HR designed career paths that incarnate in artificial titles and levels and progress steps leading nowhere close to professional satisfaction.
Will technicality be assumed one day as a subject of pride? Should I keep wearing ThinkGeek t-shirts as a protest until this day happens?
