Some career advice is so simple you can sum it up in a tweet.
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As Colin Scott from AbstractCode put it:
Rockstar (noun): A term used in job advertising to indicate that you do not want to work at the company in question. See also brogrammer.
— Colin Scott (@AbstractCode) September 10, 2014
Hard to argue with that.
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Just one minor flaw in this argument. Isn't the "Rockstar" in this sense being used as an adjective and not a noun, as it is being used to describe the noun developer? Beyond that I totally agree with the sentiment of the Tweet.
As in young and cheap enough to think that being called a rockstar programmer compensates for poor wages and conditions.
Or that they need amazing things accomplished by a true prodigy, but can't afford a team of normal developers to do it.
Articles are retweets now. Fucking sweet.
Ah, yes. "Rockstar"; empty, shortlived, banal, repetitive, self-obsessed. Why would you want one?
What if I actually AM a rockstar brogrammer?
Nothing, cause you're not a rockstar Programmer :)
Don't Tase Me Bro!
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