I have yet to meet one normal or intelligent person who came over from pivotal.
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Pat Gelsinger would wash the feet of every employee monthly, Indians work 14 hour days so whites can coast
I respectfully disagree sir/madam.
I think it was the Indians who would wash Pat’s feet so he could spread the word of god personally by walking barefoot town to town.
Alexa, show me what boomer software devs talk about
Is this the bootlicker cult? Oh yeah, it is.
In the office, I observed hundreds of pivots (not people or workers, you are called a pivot at work) sitting together in pairs working and talking loudly in a giant open space until someone walked around with a gong, rang it, and then everyone went to lunch at the same time.
It was sad to witness this day after day.
Even sadder was the rationale they told everyone about why this was the best way to develop software.
In the office, I observed hundreds of pivots (not people or workers, you are called a pivot at work) sitting together in pairs working and talking loudly in a giant open space until someone walked around with a gong, rang it, and then everyone went to lunch at the same time.
It was sad to witness this day after day.
Even sadder was the rationale they told everyone about why this was the best way to develop software.
re: Cut Pivotal Peeps
interesting, i worked at vmware for six months after their questionably-legal acquisition of pivotal and i didn't encounter one VMW employee who wasn't a bootlicker for management.
Didn’t pivotal benefits include playing ping pong all day instead of working?
matt.sh himself is an example of insanity!
Assume you had to go to work with 7th graders who thought they knew everything because their parents told them they were so smart all their life. Then they hear that sh-t from their id--t bosses. That is more the day to day norm at pivotal vs complaining about the founder of Redis.
This is how you get sh-t software because any domain expertise is simply not required for any role and everyone gets a medal, even if you don’t product anything.
As a consultant you can learn anything in a week! So easy. Going to repair that fighter jet software now, brb…
That said, Mr. Redis left VMware and joined a startup that is now worth billions of dollars. Another example of VMware management not knowing what to do to grow a business.
Don’t forget to clap at the end of meeting and bang a gong so we can all go to work at p-e at the same time to add insult to injury.
Mix in a condescending attitude for anything not done in the “Agile” way and you feel like you were kidnapped by a cult at work.
Interesting. So Ajay was against it then?
"What's bad about Pivotal?"
This is a little dated, but a good overview:
https://matt.sh/d-mb-pivotal-2018
Fairly new to the company, what's bad about Pivotal?
It isn’t just pair programming, you are forgetting all the other commandments
of the Agile cult.
Pair programming is a grift.
Pay 2 people the same salary as a non-pair programmer, but each does only 1/2 the work.
However, the slick smooth talking pivotal leaders managed to pull the
wool over enough people’s eyes to get a pass.
A really low bar to clear for management.
No bar to clear for Dell-based $$$ manipulative shenanigans.
However, the slick smooth talking pivotal leaders managed to pull the
wool over enough people’s eyes to get a pass.
A really low bar to clear for management.
No bar to clear for Dell-based $$$ manipulative shenanigans.
They were bought for one reason and one reason only. Mickey Tell needed a few quick billions. Everyone in the CNABU team was vehemently opposed to bringing them in. The M&A team raised red flags by the dozen. But none of that mattered. The big man needed the $$, so VMW paid the piper. We should have laid them all off on day one - the damage would have been far less.
It isn’t just pair programming, you are forgetting all the other commandments of the Agile cult.
The cult of Agile was able to take one or two good ideas, sprinkle them with a pinch of crazy and a dash of dogma to end up with an excellent dog and pony show to bring in consulting dollars.
Genius!
The fact they can’t build enterprise software should have been a red light for someone at VMware when they were acquired. But that acquisition was based on financial engineering and not sound computer engineering principles.
However, the slick smooth talking pivotal leaders managed to pull the wool over enough people’s eyes to get a pass.
Do they perform Pair Programming because they are not intelligent, or did Pair Programming make them unintelligent?
Try having your manager be from pivotal. Yes, he is also a woke hispter, lmao.
Believe it or not, most of the worst of that lot already left the company. Yet, those that remain have an incredible ability to drag everyone down with them into a pit of insanity. So much incompetence it is hard to believe and watch in action.
Agreed. Woke consulting hipsters showing the world that the dilbert principle is alive and well.
CLAP!