I also talked about a lot of problems with developers.

Javaeye's Robbin has published two articles Article :

Problems with many developers: http://robbin.javaeye.com/blog/24955
Continue with a lot of developer issues: http://robbin.javaeye.com/blog/25357

Many topics in this article are quite reasonable, but the question is how to look at these issues, or from what perspective, rather than simply developers' complaints or shortcomings, developers think they should reflect on it.

In the software industry, it is an indisputable fact that developers are getting less and less valuable, or the treatment is getting worse and worse. For an industry, the value of technical personnel is an important indicator to evaluate the maturity of an industry. Robbin writes:

My friends and I developed their own backup software for sales promotion in various industries and those large organizations, enterprises, and multinational companies in Shanghai. The machinery, chemical, automotive, and pharmaceutical industries are the heaviest. The company's assets are those factories and equipment, which are usually hundreds of millions of billions of investments. In contrast, what is the value of workers? Not even root hairs! The salaries of senior technicians in these industries are not as high as that of Graduation 1. Software developers for two years. The company can abandon you at any time.

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From the perspective of the author's experience, this is not true, or should not be true. For many traditional industries, the most valuable is equipment and plants, but more valuable is the technology that makes these factories and equipment run.
Technician. I have been involved in some industries (coal and chemical industries). Due to the popularity of the past few years, a specialist or undergraduate graduate can earn 2-3 times the local general salary, these companies are still private bosses,
Small companies, because these bosses know that there are no technicians, and tens of millions of valuable equipment is just a pile of scrap iron.

What about the software industry?

I have always felt that the bosses of our software companies should look at Joel on software. From the point of view mentioned in the book, the management of a software company must be done by technical personnel, or people who know the technology must work. Otherwise, they must finish their work. This can be seen from where the complaints from developers come from. Common complaints include:

• Overtime, no overtime, or lower than the wage level, and similar;
• Unreasonable demands or requirements;
• Unreasonable technical interference;
• ...

For the first point, a project or product can come out without "man-month", and most developers cannot have a good rest and exercise due to work pressure, it is also an indisputable fact that it is difficult to get a higher salary than the average salary level, should we be grateful to Dade?

Second, it is very easy for non-developers to understand the needs or requirements and understand the technology,ProgramIt may be difficult to implement the program, but they may think it is difficult to implement the Program and will not propose it. Most people will understand these situations. But if the boss doesn't understand this, it will be troublesome.

Third, interference with development. If the boss asks you to use C to implement a web B2B website, in addition to resignation and swearing-in, there will only be repeated delays in the project. This is not nothing, but a lot. For example, in many secondary GIS development projects, the boss has to use C ++, and the speed is fast.

Therefore, we can come up with an incomplete conclusion: the mother-in-law and resignation are at least 70% at the boss, not the developers. In addition to leaving the company for two years without a salary increase, there is nothing to say.

Back
To the value of the topic, for software companies, the value of ten million is not equipment, computer, it is our development staff, step back, if these ten million value developers can really threaten the boss, so lucky
So far. However, I am afraid the actual situation is that the boss has changed a group of people for two years to save costs. For such bosses, there is no good idea for such bosses who are worth tens of millions of yuan, except for the Niang.

Institute
To put it bluntly, it is a very bad thing for the domestic software industry to blame developers for such an immature industry. Development personnel problems, both Chinese and foreign, still exist since ancient times, maybe not in the future
The question is how to make such developers feel at ease that they like, Ms can do it, Google can do it, Silicon Valley can do it, and when we can do it.

A 40-50-Year-Old technician in many industries is a treasure for a company or organization, and such a person may not have any title. Their value lies in technology and experience. When can software companies see such a situation?