One way a builder culture can fail

# · 🔥 185 · 💬 126 · 2 years ago · rachelbythebay.com · zdw · 📷
I've told some stories about what happens when you end up at a company that builds nothing and instead rents everything from some vendor. Let's say you're at one of these companies which has a reputation for building infrastructure stuff instead of renting it. The trouble is that sometimes these companies will hire someone who's known for doing X... and *only* X. They're a builder, all right, as long as you want them to build X. Perhaps they have been building X at some other company, and now your company has hired them to come and do that same job over here instead. Unsurprisingly, having invested in getting that person on board, the company is going to try to make that project happen. If X never ships, then they look bad, the people who vouched for them look bad, their management looks bad, and so on up the line. The way you find out what might happen is to challenge it on technical grounds. This is just one of the ways an unprincipled "Builder culture" can backfire, particularly if you have people running the show who have no problem putting their own gains ahead of the company. Just imagine what companies would look like if their hiring processes filtered out this kind of charlatan instead of looking for whether they could do some dumb coding card trick in a 45 minute interview block.
One way a builder culture can fail



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