Good Job, but All Day Pair Programming is Miserable
Good Job, but All Day Pair Programming is Miserable
- Good pay
- Great career growth
- Benefits
- Lots of time off and sick time
- Work with latest technologies.
All-day pair programming is the worst, and most teams expect you to pair all the time. It’s very exhausting to have to pair with another engineer all day. It can be difficult to think clearly when someone is watching you, or you end up succumbing to groupthink. If you lean introverted, then software engineering at Ford may not be right for you.
Please, please, please stop enforcing all-day pairing on software engineers. It should be up to software engineers to decide when it's right to pair on a task instead of just having it be the default way of working. Some things are appropriate to pair on, while other things are not.
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