Future(s) for D.

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 09:01:47 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 19:01:08 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

>> So I wrote an Oxbridge style applied economics open-ended 
>> question.  Most of the perfect candidates on paper just 
>> regurgitated what they read in the FT; a few didn't and 
>> actually thought about it.  And the girl that got the job 
>> spent 45 hours writing her paper, which was more useful than 
>> the stuff you would get from a 40 year old seasoned guy.  No 
>> way would we have found her had we had an HR department (or 
>> rather had we let HR 'help' us).
>>
>> For technology, it's different, but I think the same way of 
>> thinking may prove useful.  And if/when I need a tech guy to 
>> help me, it's a nobrainer to ask here because of the quality 
>> of the people.  Although that is not why I am here.
>
> Good on you for doing that. I know from my own experience that 
> people who are intelligent and inspired (i.e. willing to think 
> and move things forward) can get up to speed very fast and make 
> later valuable contributions to a team/project. I've found that 
> this usually happens in small businesses or within small 
> projects where resources are very limited and there is no HR 
> involved.
>
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> That said, there is of course the element of established and 
> complacent people trying to keep out the intelligent and 
> inspired crowd, because they think they are a threat to them, 
> you know, those who make a career out of brown-nosing.

That's the beauty of making do with fewer resources than at a 
large firm - no politics, but on the other hand you really have 
to make the most of them.  And the experience of even 
medium-sized firms that have that culture who try to start 
something new - both when it works and when it does not - seems 
to suggest you often need to adopt a skunk works type approach 
rather than try to integrate cultures.