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Monday, November 1, 2010

TEAM PLAYER - Favourite term on Software engineer's resume

Team player is a word which can be found on almost every software engineer’s resume. It usually signifies a person who can gel well with the team and believes in team work.
Getting along with the team is a good thing. This virtue has a lot of advantages, your team members can fill in for you in the hour of need, you can always have company on weekends for booze, movies etc.

But the most important attribute of being a team player is team work. Now this is where this innocent phrase is highly misused and misinterpreted. For managers team player means a person who can collectively work towards achieving team’s goal. This means the entire team shares a part of work individually, they work in full sync, and finally they deliver what was required in time. But for the team members like me who are very lazy and who have mastered the art of dodging all the responsibility coming their way, the term team work is a savior. To them, team work means the entire team working on the same piece of work, rather than looking after different pieces of work individually. As a result no individual team member is accountable. Sincere members of the team put in honest effort to complete the work and we lazy souls keep ourselves indulged in planning for week

end and other extracurricular activities, because we know the job will be completed on time. It helps us to create a deceptive circumference around the work that has been assigned to the team, so that their non participation in work goes unnoticed.
They sprung up to the centre stage when it’s time for credit sharing. For that too, they do not have to sweat much, because any ways they were a part of the team that delivered following a team work model.
I guess most of the software engineers will agree. Lest see what you have to say. Just share it here.

4 comments:

  1. Yes, teamwork is an important role in life.

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  2. @ Chelsae... Yes thats true... I just tried to give a differnt interpretation of it

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  3. :D:D:D:D:D

    are you sure your boss is not reading this????

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  4. @NISHA .... Yup he is not aware :)
    Keep visiting and keep sending suggestions ... I need them to improve

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