Ask HN: Founders, what is the worst experience you had with developers?
I find a lot of developers seriously lack a professional mentality (I think I&#x27;m guilty of this in my youth though I made up for it in dedication and sheer hard work.)<p>Moving towards the business side I hired a lot of interns from commerce&#x2F;marketing and they made my devs seem like little babies, it was shocking how capable, committed, team-oriented they were. It changed my view of things.<p>It&#x27;s a matter of culture and perspective, and of course the fact that there is definitely such a thing as &#x27;bad management&#x27; ... but Engs do have a tendency to think they know what&#x27;s best for the product roadmap, and have really strong views about all sorts of things.<p>Some of this is good, in a way, but I really wish somehow the culture of development could be professionalized, both in terms of general approach to working at a company - but also in terms of the artisanal aspects of development itself.<p>It&#x27;s important to set tone and expecations early, with smaller units it might work ... but as Eng teams get big, then they always end up reporting to Eng and not product, so it really depends on the culture that the VP Eng &#x2F; CTO has established.