Definitely if it is a sex education software module.

Leader eh? Sounds more the metallic lead!

Does forking any other project that is supported by big enterprises and changing a few lines count?

If true, you will be out of business in a few years.

I wasn't there, but sometimes an interviewer will do that kind of thing on purpose just to see how you react.

With Software Development being a team sport, some of them want to see how you react to criticism.

If you talked back, THATS why you weren't selected.

@rtannerf you know I was joking right? Hence the "haha".

What about hiring more staff or sacrificing quality? Hahah

There seems to be too many people willing to actually put their words to "paper".

My theory is that many of them don't want any dumb shit they say to be documented like that.

But if they say dumb shit in a meeting they can always refute it later.

You would prefer to have a collaborative group discussion about your compensation?

FWIW a hiring manager that knows what they are doing will not ask you trivia and there is no way you can prepare for their interview questions.

Because their uncompiled and therefore interpreted languages are so fast right?

@isaac is that why extended zip was introduced? I've never seen anyone actually provide an extended zip though

When someone asks if you are "full stack" you say YES!

(paraphrasing Winston Zedmore)

The real question is, why doesn't your development manager require the team to use source control?

@Seethe I do!

As if top level management has the time to review such low level minutia such as this...

Why the hell do they even collect a city and state? The ZIP code gives you both!

We do weekly code reviews with a focus on a particular characteristic of software quality; such as security, performance or maintainability.

@Drjonees agreed, the mug is going to get scummy!

Your boss is trying to help your career, if you would rather not advance in the management branch and want I go down the architecture branch, tell them?

Translation: What you would otherwise do at work is more valuable than his own time, ask for a raise!

Denial.
Anger.
Bargaining.
Depression.
Acceptance.

I was actually at a conference where a presenter on IoT declared toilet paper renewal will be the first killer app of IoT

@silhoutte well done, I like to say if you want the rules bent then you've come to the right place, if you want them broken then we can't speak here!

The best is when I interview people and they are only able to explain inheritance and polymorphism (poorly) by using the animal example.

Not one of them hired.

Trying to move my team to Slack now! Even the free tier is pretty good.

If only it were possible to change that in 5 seconds.

Oh well.

In my experience project managers generally, and account managers specifically add no value to the software development process.

They serve a temporary purpose in that they act as a filter for the even worse clients, until they get Stockholm Syndrome and are committing you and your team to all kinds of unnecessary bullshit. Then you are in a slow death spiral that is hard to pull out of, like an event horizon.

Left control, c, x and p keys should be barely hanging on at this point.

Should have used toLower(), just to be safe!

There really is no excuse for that crap, everyone born before the typewriter is dead.