Comments on: Financial Engineers and The Prolonged Death Spiral http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/computing/testing/financial-engineers-and-the-prolonged-death-spiral/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/computing/testing/financial-engineers-and-the-prolonged-death-spiral/comment-page-1/#comment-72304 Sat, 04 Jul 2015 11:57:30 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=13082#comment-72304 Indeed. One of the reasons death spiral businesses are miserable places to work is that it’s in the owners’ interests not to provide skills training, because it will only make their staff more likely to leave for better jobs elsewhere.

Sadly the only option is to learn new skills outside of work in your own time.

]]> By: Michael http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/computing/testing/financial-engineers-and-the-prolonged-death-spiral/comment-page-1/#comment-72281 Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:21:32 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=13082#comment-72281 Yes, but where are the alternative employers?
What do you do with Java 1.4 skill nowadays?
Employers want the latest flavours, and know how to get them.
They do not seem to know what to do with them.

I’m curious why a potential employer asked me which of TreeSet and HashSet go ES the better read performance, when I know the big product they are trying to roll out is now 18 months late and slipping rather than closing on its launch date. Relative performance is not a useful question when your code doesn’t do the job at all.

Dilbert remains employed by the Pointy Haired Boss because there is no sensible alternative for either of them.

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