It shows that previously he likely worked only at companies which catered to him, honestly.
That was pretty widespread during 2005-2015, but it's been dropping extremely quickly now.
Developers are generally seen as replaceable cogs. Middle management loves to talk about "scaling" - by which they don't mean scaling how devs understand it, but instead multiplying headcount - because surely throwing x-n devs at the same software will multiply the velocity by the same factor amiright?
The biggest value you can get is by having a very small team of extremely capable people (with extremely high bus factor) being fully in control of everything they do.
Realistically speaking, that'd be impossible to "scale" in the perspective of an MBA however, hence the industry at wide doesn't to that.
You may notice that some employers do, however.
You're just unlikely to get a job there, because their team is already established.
That was pretty widespread during 2005-2015, but it's been dropping extremely quickly now.
Developers are generally seen as replaceable cogs. Middle management loves to talk about "scaling" - by which they don't mean scaling how devs understand it, but instead multiplying headcount - because surely throwing x-n devs at the same software will multiply the velocity by the same factor amiright?
The biggest value you can get is by having a very small team of extremely capable people (with extremely high bus factor) being fully in control of everything they do.
Realistically speaking, that'd be impossible to "scale" in the perspective of an MBA however, hence the industry at wide doesn't to that.
You may notice that some employers do, however.
You're just unlikely to get a job there, because their team is already established.