Don’t think so. My first job was kind of like that. I don’t even know how they thought that little old me just out of university could be left alone to successfully build applications on my own, but I think people trusted a lot more during that era because eternal september hadn’t arrived yet.
Working directly for the users without any weird BA/PM/TA shit in between is glorious, both because you can always walk up to get immediate feedback (people generally like to see you are actively working on their issue), and in a place like that you can likely deploy it in the middle of the day and immediately improve their workflow.
It still amuses me that IT was located together with finance, because we did reports xD
> I don’t even know how they thought that little old me just out of university could be left alone to successfully build applications on my own, but I think people trusted a lot more during that era
A similar feeling on my end too :-) That might be it - trust sounds like a big part of it for me. Taking a chance on someone who you might eventually end up being good, rather than interviewing and evaluating them 7 ways till sunday. I understand the impulse. I wouldn't want to be a new engineer out of college today though - seems rough.
I did get paid less then than some new grads seem to be now so that might have been a factor in taking the pressure off.
> because you can always walk up to get immediate feedback (people generally like to see you are actively working on their issue)
Oh absolutely!
> It still amuses me that IT was located together with finance, because we did reports xD
It was communications for me, because the software tool we built was free to use on the web, and websites are communications, obviously :D
Working directly for the users without any weird BA/PM/TA shit in between is glorious, both because you can always walk up to get immediate feedback (people generally like to see you are actively working on their issue), and in a place like that you can likely deploy it in the middle of the day and immediately improve their workflow.
It still amuses me that IT was located together with finance, because we did reports xD