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0 pointsBarrin923y ago0 comments

>If that's a good description of the relationships in your team

That's a good description of most teams, open or closed, private or public. Hierarchies are universal, for good reason. I'm not entirely sure what hippie commune David Farley programs in where Intern #15 can just merrily hit the big red nuke button and send everything into production

In open source projects pull requests are great because you don't trust people you don't know, in private companies you don't trust people because you know them. Hell I don't trust myself enough and I'm glad processes like this exist

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mpweiher3y ago· 1 in thread

> That's a good description of most teams

Really? "Arch-enemies whose stated goal is to destroy each other and who are pointing world-ending nuclear arsenals at each other" is a good description of most teams?

My condolences.

Barrin92OP3y ago

It's just natural. In any sufficiently complex organization you have internal conflict and competition for resources, often conflicting goals and adversarial relationships that you have on the outside. Internal conflicts can ironically enough be more vicious than external conflict. Any successful company must have processes in place to function despite of that.

A successful tech company in particular can go from 5 to 500 people in just two years. How do you run on trust when 95% of people don't know each other?

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