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Do 10% of developers do nothing? (m.youtube.com)
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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Our most critical dev / solutions expert spends most weeks in meetings.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's our architect, and they're not a dev (they don't even do code reviews), but they are quite critical because it's their job to understand the entire app, including in-progress changes from other teams. They have their own team (architecture), so they don't report on any dev team, they report to the director.

    Maybe that's what others are calling a "lead dev"?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Seems to be a trend, my boss was telling me that the VP's in our org think we need more lead devs and less solutions architects, though they would functionally be doing largely the same role, meetings, planning, design, interfacing with teams they are dependent on, annual technology reviews etc. I think it's going to bite them in the end

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I imagine hiring will be an issue. Devs want to dev, and naming an architect role a "dev" role doesn't communicate the role properly.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yep, they talked about it a bit during my hiring what I wanted my title to be since they are paid the same and do the same tasks(in addition to some coding expectations). I'm glad I chose architect, but ultimately they squeezed me out of that with RTO mandates for architects and above.

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