I understand your viewpoint, but entry-level positions are hard to come by. Some (most?) companies just don't have any entry-level positions, period. How is a person coming out of college supposed to get a job when they all require experience in [insert laundry list here]?

I've been accused of lying on my resume outright in an interview (I didn't lie). Sad thing was that these were developers interviewing me.

I can't agree with this enough.

even though I agree with Commodore_64love :-D

mod this guy for pointing out how loaded the article was and providing the necessary background info to more or less understand what actually happened.

in defense of the 20-something morons who have never seen a project managed competently, considering that in software development around 60-70% of the software projects are completely failed projects that'll never see the light of day, most of them never will see a competently managed project. ever. But yes, they should be asking themselves if it could be done better. I know I did; I got fed up and quit; no upward mobility, everyday was an exercise in futility, etc etc. fuck that shit.

My own experience on software projects consists of projects where "design" is using lots of code generation and randomly throwing in design patterns everywhere and then wondering why the result sucks; and "time management" -- here's one of my favorites, "you don't have time to think, you just code."

Cube farms don't help.

well, I'm glad I gave all that up, I don't miss it at all. I'm going back to school to finish up a bachelors in math (I also have a bachelors in CS) and then onto grad school for either math or statistics (still need to decide). If I ever decide to program again professionally, it will probably mean that I'm working for myself.

This. There are a lot of people out there who not only don't think it's wrong, they think it's the moral thing to do and to not do it would be wrong. This goes beyond giving recommendations; it's the idea that "being good to your friends" is the right thing to do. The definition most people use these days for "being good to your friends" doesn't include honesty, which is in such short supply these days.

Yes. And the reason the publishers forced the increase in prices was because of their contracts with apple. The mfn plays into it, but amazon was also forced to go to the agency model because apple said the other vendors couldn't sell to anyone else unless it was through the agency model if they wanted to do business with apple.

not to mention that the constitution isn't enforced much these days anyway. Patriot Act? Obamacare? How about the Feds raiding weed farms in California?

Sure sure, people will mention the commerce clause, whose meaning has conveniently (for the government) changed over the years. Any lawyer will tell you that when a law is passed, it retains the meaning it had when it was passed -- it's only with the constitution that it magically changes. This is why we needed a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, but not to ban weed; it was understood that the federal government was not granted the authority by the states to ban substances, that is until the Supreme Court decided that it did have the power. btw, go California for standing up to the feds!!!!

Probably the most recent examples of violating the constitution are Arizona trying to enforce the border (can't blame them for trying)
and, here's my favorite, the federal government trying to sue Arizona. They can't actually do that, the states have sovereign immunity and the lawsuit is a violation of the 11th amendment, but whatever.

Honestly, we had more freedom and paid less taxes when we were under British rule. I'd take this thought further, but I don't need the SS showing up at my door

I agree with you 100%.

I just want to emphasize: companies don't commit crimes, people do. If "the company" knew of the crime being committed and didn't take action, yes, "the company" is liable and owners do need to be held responsible.

The perps themselves need to also pay (either a fine or jail time depending on the crime). Bernie Madoff and his ilk are great examples (I'm pleased that they sent his software developers to jail too. They were some of his biggest enablers). This may be where RajivSLK was coming from, but he didn't articulate it.

I bring this up for 2 reasons:
1. In our rage at "company behavior", we sometimes forget about the people, which is at least as important
2. If Michael Dell and Kevin Rollins (a former boss) are personally being made to pay up, that means that, aside from Dell being liable, they personally perpetrated crimes (possibly.....rant on SEC below).

This is my big beef with the SEC. We should actually enforce our fraud laws and when someone is accused of committing fraud, have a real investigation and possibly some arrests, not have the SEC come in, say that there's "accounting irregularities" and slap a person on the wrist with a puny fine. Half the time the SEC is in cahoots with these companies/people and are committing crimes themselves.

oh whoops, someone said this already. Mod this guy up: http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1629660&cid=31963338

yeah. well, for those prices, buy the kindle -- kindle version is going for $9.99 :-)

To answer the question: read peopleware!! http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-Second/dp/0932633439

It deals with this specifically. The conclusion that the author came to is basically that people should have offices. Cubes and "open workspaces" are too noisy and distracting. This whole thing with open workspaces came out of the 70s -- I think you had to be on drugs to think it was a good idea tbh. Education/academia found out the hard way that it didn't work, but businesses haven't figured it out yet -- all businesses look at is "if I cram this many more people into a tight workspace, I save so much more money vs renting more space" without a care to productivity. Productivity is a hard thing to measure after all, but a good effort is made in peopleware and IBM did a study as well. IBM and Microsoft give their workers offices, the reasons are inside the book.