deadlines

The reality is a staff room filled with writers working under deadlines and restrictions.

Most projects suffer from deadlines so they'll just never be written the way they should be and instead, the flow is now: patch it and move on.

There a few idiots everywhere, but so often deadlines and stupid management force bad habits (which create antipatterns...).

At the present time due to paperwork deadlines, you must be currently legally authorized to work in the USA.

When deadlines slip, its not the stragglers who are asked what happened, its the high performers.

If they can't even give correct deadlines to future employees, I can't imagine how they threat their own employees.

My guess is the Chinese team was facing strict deadlines and in the act of desperation they ripped off the code and layout from Plurk.

It was too much and the deadlines were too short.

(Yes it's a charade if you're hitting deadlines while creating techincal debt for everyone else!) What's management's problem?

That way, alternative steps can be taken - scope can be cut, extra people can be assigned, deadlines can be moved or budgets can be changed.

Just act like you give a crap about the future of what you're building more so than meeting deadlines and other engineers will enjoy working with you.

None of the people we've spoken to who do poorly in interviews report problems performing under deadlines at work, or when a website is down and there's pressure to get it back up.

The moment that they changed the deadlines was the moment when you should have uttered an unconditional "No.".

, is interesting: "Chicago-based Boeing now is struggling to avoid missed deadlines and their resulting costs in dollars and reputation.

I haven't, but I can imagine "why can't this be done faster?" becoming a tactic to intimidate people into working long hours to meet unrealistic deadlines that keep shrinking.

Given that your high-level summary of your tasks during the 80s and 90s didn't include any descriptions of "long hours" or "frantic scrambles for deadlines", would it be fair to say that -in your experience- -during the PC boom- tech company management encouraged their workers to work no more than 40 hours per week and take as much leave as they required?

Deadlines are sometimes set on a whim, not by some external necessity.