By: mike shupp

mike shupp — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 08:27:34 +0000

I gotta agree — stack rating is a terrible way to deal with people. I do see one semi-reasonable
argument for it in engineering, however. Maybe things are much different now, but when I got into
the aerospace business back in the early 1970′s one of the great unmentioned truths about engineering
was that 30% or more of beginning engineers quit the field in two to three years. What they were
doing wasn’t congenial or they got suckered into personality conflicts or something more attractive
came along… and they got out. Assuming something of the sort in modern day IT, I suspect it’s kind
of easy in any reasonably sized collection of programming professionals to pick out the one guy in ten
who obviously isn’t happy where he is.

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