My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job (Pragmatic Programmers)
by Chad Fowler
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Author: Chad FowlerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-19
ISBN: 0976694018
Number of pages: 232
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Book Review: Interesting and probably right.
Summary: 4 Stars
Ignore the slightly naff title, this is a really good little book.
I've worked for 20 years as a programmer, in large companies and small, permanent and contract. For many years it seemed the only way was up - more projects, systems, new languages, and more people coming into the industry. Recently a lot of jobs have gone to India, and some to Eastern Europe. At the same time, because of technological development in a maturing industry, more work seems to have become configuring 3rd Party software rather than programming.
It's getting harder to find real programming jobs in short.
This book is by a high achiever - a jazz musician who took to software, who was a programmer for US-based companies and also an Open Source programmer, and who then spent time in India assisting his US employer's Indian arm.
It takes the form of 52 short chapters discussing how to improve your programming, and broaden your technical base, and then how important it is to acquire business knowledge, thereby to make yourself more useful.
The essays are very accurate about how programmers and their teams work, the psychology of programming, if you like, and very much worth reading.
Above all the message is that mere coders, who expect to receive a spec and program it out mechanically, have a shaky future.
It can be a humbling read - I don't think I've followed this high achiever's urgings very well so far.
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