[TriLUG] Lulu Code Monkey job - sounds pretty open

[Michael Winslow Czeiszperger]

Why would a company advertise for a position using an insulting term? 
Do they really want a lower primate, or are they just using the term 
because it sounds hip?

 From the Jargon Dictionary:

code monkey     n     1. A person only capable of grinding out code, 
but unable to perform the higher-primate tasks of software 
architecture, analysis, and design. Mildly insulting. Often applied to 
the most junior people on a programming team. 2. Anyone who writes code 
for a living; a programmer. 3. A self-deprecating way of denying 
responsibility for a management decision, or of complaining about 
having to live with such decisions. As in "Don't ask me why we need to 
write a compiler in+COBOL, I'm just a code monkey."


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michael at czeiszperger dot org
Chapel Hill, NC