Comments on: Are Software Developers Worth More than Accountants?

By: fsilber

fsilber — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:33:18 +0000

Accountants and bookkeepers are not treated any better than programmers. In fact, the first role for IT was to automate accounting to reduce the need for accountants and bookkeepers.

A business’ alpha-personnel are those who decide what to sell, manage the producers or sell the products. The rest of us are just tools.

Of course, good tools are valuable.

By: Robert is an idiot

Robert is an idiot — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:04:38 +0000

I’m afraid that getting closer to the customer won’t get IT any closer to management. How do you see that process happening?

By: Rolle

Rolle — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:47:03 +0000

Well, the company I work for would not function so well without the developers. We know the processes and how they work (and should work) better than them. That is scary, and not so fun because it takes away our development-time.

Accountants are of course also important here, but it is easier to find an accountant than a good developer…

So at our company, yes, developers are certainly worth more than an accountant.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:05:56 +0000

@Robert

That might be the most unintelligent thing I’ve heard someone say in a real long time.

By: Robert Young

Robert Young — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:22:48 +0000

*Any* occupation is worth more than an Accountant. It was the Accountants who engineered this Great Recession. Yes, I know, they were “just following orders”.