Programmers under pressure
In my previous blog post I have mentioned that most of our job candidates state in their CV-s that they work great under pressure. The thing is ... nobody works grate under pressure. The only difference between people is whether they break under pressure or not.
The pressure is something well known to probably every programmer, but
hopefully it isn't present every day. When I say pressure, I don’t
think of managers forcing programmers to code for long hours. I rather
think about situations when you must finish something that you care
about very much, but the situation makes it almost impossible.
This is often the truth for developers because we:
- have deadlines,
- do complicated things that are error prone,
- lack engineering practices and tend to throw the ones we got the first time we hit the wall
Because pressure is probably guaranteed thing, first thing we can do is
become aware of it. I have met two kinds of pressure: negative and
positive.
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