Well, said. Alas, the problem is,
that competent people one could work for are so bloody few and far between.
Before dotcom boom, people from the trenches were usually gradually promoted into management. Hiring and evaluating programmers was not a problem.
During dotcom boom, speculative capital invaded the field. Investors, which didn't have a clue what they are investing into, hired equally clueless managers, whose sole mission was to commoditize everything, and make as much profit as possible, short term wise. Naturally, they ****** everything up in the long term on this account, in more ways than one. Clueless hiring practices is just one of them.
