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I dont see the correlation between company type (tech/software/X company) and sucking at your job though. Ive never worked for a, as you define it, "software" c

I dont see the correlation between company type (tech/software/X company) and sucking at your job though. Ive never worked for a, as you define it, "software" company because the software ive built has always been in service of selling other things, but people who sucked at their jobs got let go quickly. And there are absolutely software companies that hire sucky people. I don't know for certain if the people who work there are sucky, but the software they build and sell certainly are. Maybe for big corporation non-tech companies the calculus is different? But both Shopify and Spotify certainly cant exist without their software.

austin-cheney 5d ago
> I dont see the correlation between company type (tech/software/X company) and sucking at your job though. The difference is in culture and expectations. People can suck when they are allowed or expected to suck. They can’t suck when the employer sets high expectations. If a company wants to ease hiring and employment flexibility they have to set the bar low to increase the prospective candidate pool. Otherwise they have to be extremely selective and/or train people. Perhaps the distinction is outside your imagination because it’s outside your experience.
- abustamam 5d ago
  > People can suck when they are allowed or expected to suck. This is not a unique concept to software or any company type though. You don't have to look far on the antiwork subreddit to find people who work in all types of different industries, technical and not, big and small, where some people just suck and everyone knows it and no one does anything about it.
  - austin-cheney 5d ago
    That is true, but it’s also why most industries require licensing and/or certifications. These things are not 100% effective, but are still excellent at removing disqualified candidates.

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I dont see the correlation between company type (tech/software/X company) and sucking at your job though. Ive never worked for a, as you define it, "software" c

by abustamam 5d ago

austin-cheney 5d ago
> I dont see the correlation between company type (tech/software/X company) and sucking at your job though. The difference is in culture and expectations. People can suck when they are allowed or expected to suck. They can’t suck when the employer sets high expectations. If a company wants to ease hiring and employment flexibility they have to set the bar low to increase the prospective candidate pool. Otherwise they have to be extremely selective and/or train people. Perhaps the distinction is outside your imagination because it’s outside your experience.
- abustamam 5d ago
  > People can suck when they are allowed or expected to suck. This is not a unique concept to software or any company type though. You don't have to look far on the antiwork subreddit to find people who work in all types of different industries, technical and not, big and small, where some people just suck and everyone knows it and no one does anything about it.
  - austin-cheney 5d ago
    That is true, but it’s also why most industries require licensing and/or certifications. These things are not 100% effective, but are still excellent at removing disqualified candidates.