tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34927953.post5734918986234342922..comments2023-07-09T02:39:33.734-07:00Comments on Jack Cough on Software: BackJosh Coughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04509343962912103631noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34927953.post-18665882146555642282009-11-19T07:26:58.736-08:002009-11-19T07:26:58.736-08:00Sorry for everyone elses bad experiences. Working ...Sorry for everyone elses bad experiences. Working in financial really sucks. Since I left NYSE all of management (at least the management what was around when I was there) has been canned. No surprise. Additionally, the new management sucked even worse (not sure how, but true), and nearly the entire team has quit. I likely won't work in financial again, though I do hear DRW is a cool place to be. Lot's of smart, nice guys there. <br /><br />I'm at a place now that doesn't only appreciate intelligence, hard work, and innovation, but by definition, it must innovate. It must be working on things no one has worked on before. I don't think I'll leave academia again. I've made that mistake twice already, and it won't happen again.Josh Coughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04509343962912103631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34927953.post-1953711664253799692009-11-19T05:47:38.553-08:002009-11-19T05:47:38.553-08:00Jack,
I had a similar experience at Bank of Ameri...Jack,<br /><br />I had a similar experience at Bank of America. Management was uninterested in TDD, in using open source products to replace their aging app servers, to leverage linux, etc. And every decision they made, made things worse. On my team, much of the development staff ended up leaving the same year i did. And much of management was eventually moved to where they could do less damage. It is a pretty common pattern.Jetlaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02126420062327788054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34927953.post-20636401196340656452008-12-01T08:32:00.000-08:002008-12-01T08:32:00.000-08:00Hello Jack. I'm feeling exactly the same you wrote...Hello Jack. I'm feeling exactly the same you wrote here. I work as an architect in huge Java projects, but my heart keeps saying to me: "Go ahead! Agile your life! Go work with Grails, Rails!" I'll continue to spend all my free time studying this and wait for the certain time. You wrote what my eyes wanted o read: "...new technology, open-minded, agile, lots of tests, curious..." <BR/><BR/>We can talk more by e-mail! Good luck to you! Thanks for the post!<BR/><BR/>Lucas Teixeira<BR/>lucastex@gmail.com<BR/>http://lucastex.comUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00702334430699032759noreply@blogger.com