As someone who hires software (and hardware) engineers, I won't touch anyone with Twitter on their resume.
Almost as bad as having NASA/JPL on a resume.
Interesting to know. I understand exactly......
What’s wrong with nasa/jpl?
How much time you got? :)
They are shit government workers. More interested in CYA and filling out forms than actual invocation. They call it "white collar welfare."
A NASA engineer has to do just enough to not get fired (which isn't much, mostly show up and fill out the forms), and they have a job for life. They sell their engineering souls for a "good enough" pension and to be able to leave the office at 4:30 every day.
All hiring engineers near NASA centers know that NASA engineers will do more harm than one could imagine. They will destroy an organization with their laziness and CYA. It's infectious.
It's really the epitome of the socialized cycle:
- Take a private industry and make it public. For the next ~15 years (~1 generation) you get amazing results. High productivity + unlimited funds = awesome results.
- Then the institutional malaise kicks in. They are government workers after all. Creativity and risk taking begin to be punished and those who can't conform to the system are pushed out. Those who can keep their heads down and not make waves survive.
- The org leaders realize that they can't solve anything in house and firing everyone and starting over isn't politically feasible. (Which politician will survive cutting NASA's funding? They might as well kick babies while they are at it.) So, they outsource and become the funders and controllers.
- Then they collapse.
NASA is on step #3.
Interesting and good to know. I haven’t seen any resumes come across my desk with NASA on them, but would’ve been curious had i seen one. Good to know…
Damn that's insightful... I mean, it makes sense.. I just never knew.. Goes to show that government is nothing but a fucking cancer. The founders were right in wanting to keep it small.
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