I have more respect for programmer A for putting his time, heart, and sweat into his work. If I were an employer, I'd be more interested in Employee A.

If I were an employer, I might favor a worker who would drop their weekend plans to prepare for a demo on short notice. Would I care whether they'd written the entire demo themselves, or that they'd used other code as a starting point? No, I wouldn't. Getting it done by Tuesday is good enough.

I'm not an employer, but I have been a manager. As a manager, I would notice that B outperformed A, on the task of preparing a demo, by 3:1. If the call for action had come on 4pm on a Monday, B would be ready by Wednesday, while A was still pouring over manuals. And don't discount the possibility that B learns by looking over the code he's downloaded.

People who believe that have to do it all themselves, even if they're learning while doing it, are not necessarily people I want on my teams. They tend to view everything as a personal test, and don't work well with others.

In reply to Re: Re: Initiative or otherwise? by dws
in thread Initiative or otherwise? by BrowserUk

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