Yes, of a sort. Green fields are rare, and with the way things are today your picking up a massive pile of pre written infrastructure and libraries that you hardly look at (until they are a problem).
The rockstar mentality is not wrong, but some days you need to pick up the pack and walk up the mountain too.
The problem starts at the interview. We give people coding tests to see if they can produce, but that's less than 10% of the technical side of the job. Really we should be giving code reading tests. What does this do, is there anything wrong with it, is there anything you would change and so on.
Even most "green fields" these days tend to be fields where the grass is torn out, some re-landscaping is done, and some new grass that is a lot like the old grass is planted.
Yes, of a sort. Green fields are rare, and with the way things are today your picking up a massive pile of pre written infrastructure and libraries that you hardly look at (until they are a problem).
The rockstar mentality is not wrong, but some days you need to pick up the pack and walk up the mountain too.
The problem starts at the interview. We give people coding tests to see if they can produce, but that's less than 10% of the technical side of the job. Really we should be giving code reading tests. What does this do, is there anything wrong with it, is there anything you would change and so on.