Comments on: Becoming a Better Developer Part 10: What Do Your Colleagues Think of You?

By: Jonathan Danylko

Jonathan Danylko — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:21:34 +0000

Good article! I love the series. Interesting philosophy about the under and over-paid mentality. If you’re looking for more programming lessons, I posted something similar about lessons learned over a 20 year period as a programmer. http://www.dcs-media.com/desdev/Detail.aspx?ArticleId=578 JD

By: Tyler Watson

Tyler Watson — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:06:20 +0000

I really enjoyed this post. We can be an inward-looking people, but not accomplish an accurate self-reflection. It’s a scary proposition to ask others to evaluate us, but if done in a safe and honest environment, I could see how such an exercise could reap huge rewards.

By: Bart

Bart — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 20:13:37 +0000

I believe the main take away from this post is that asking your co-workers for their honest feedback is one of the best things you can do to learn about your strenghts and weaknesses. I would also include your clients in this list of people to solicit for feedback. Often this works best if you do it annonymously. You can hand out surveys to 10-20 people and place a drop box in your office/cube. If there are comments or responses that you’d like to follow-up on you can simply start talking to these people about what you learned and see who is willing to share more details.

By: http://

http:// — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:08:52 +0000

This post only applies to $8 billion dollar companies and the experiment was probably with managers who are overpaid anyways. In smaller companies, best people are underpaid and everybody knows it.

By: ~rick

~rick — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:05:35 +0000

Nice post…I guess it’s time to stop complaining about being under-paid.