[HN Gopher] Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
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       Implementers, Solvers, and Finders
        
       Author : kiyanwang
       Score  : 63 points
       Date   : 2023-04-17 06:16 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
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       | dgreensp wrote:
       | A lot of start-ups in my experience see all their engineers as
       | "high-autonomy feature implementors." It's not really autonomy in
       | the sense of power or choice, though, just being left alone to
       | implement features. The thing is, "features" are product-level
       | things that require technical design as well as implementation.
       | Product design and implementation and technical design and
       | implementation are all different things. Even within programming,
       | implementation has sub-problems that require creativity. I
       | implemented a Java VM, once, for example, and it was really fun.
       | So it's not necessarily the case that once something is a matter
       | of "implementation" it is just straightforward work to give to a
       | junior programmer, or that implementing things is boring.
       | 
       | What sucks is, for example, being good at technical design but
       | that not being valued. And management being disconnected from
       | employees, which is not unique to software companies.
        
       | yawnxyz wrote:
       | I love how well this framework maps to academia -- PhDs are
       | implementors, Post-docs are Problem-solvers, and Professors are
       | Problem-finders.
        
       | montecarl wrote:
       | This post made me realize why I am hesitant to leave my role in a
       | struggling start up. I get paid to discover what our problems are
       | and solve them as fast as possible which leads me to constantly
       | learning new skills and fully owning our product and R&D output.
       | I like that more than the lack of job security and must be why
       | I've been so resistant to searching for a new more secure
       | position.
        
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