I think your assumptions may be wrong ...
Most of the people employed in the software industry in this country are
maintenance people (network administrators, so called). In universities we
manage to employ very high grade people, who leave us to go on to similar
jobs in the City after a few years. It's a job that doesn't suit
everybody, of course, but I don't think it is mundane or dull -- for the
first few years, anyway.
Richard Bornat
At 7:59 pm +0000 22/2/99, Christopher Douce wrote:
>This isn't really a psychology of programming question, more of a software
>engineering one... Does anybody know of any surveys of software
>maintenance personnel? Generally maintenance seems to be an activity that
>does not have a lot of prestige attached to it. Would this have an effect
>upon the 'type' of people that are given maintenance tasks? Highly thought
>of developers undertake high prestige development projects, while new
>programmers may be assigned mundane, rather dull maintenance tasks. It
>'feels' like an area where something must have been published...
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>Chris Douce
