"Dropbox engineers James Cowling and Jamie Turner"
Quote from Coders: “In the culture of heroics, you get rewarded for heroics. But ultimately your job should be to eliminate heroism ... That concept of ‘rock star engineers,’ I don’t like that phrase. Lots of people can code. Lots can make a prototype. But the most important thing that software firms do isn't coding. It’s higher up the cognitive ladder. It’s deciding what type of system to build: what it should do, what it shouldn’t do; what your customers need, what they don’t; what architecture to use, how to actually make the project happen. Being a programmer is being a bricklayer, we’re all bricklayers, we all write code - But if you want to build a skyscraper you don’t say, ‘Quick, find me the world’s greatest bricklayer!’ You say, "Find me an architect and people who can build a team.”
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