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Old 09-09-2007, 03:47 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Veneti View Post
I'd say probably you'll find (as an average) that ISTJ's are coders/testers and the INTJ's are the project managers. The ENTJ's are the client facing consultants/sales.
In the real world (today and for the last 5 years or so), the vast majority of ISTJ work, except systems administration, has been outsourced to third world countries. In software, intuitive people are all they want in the US at most companies anymore, because they can do both (developers and consultants (but not coders) are almost invariably intuitive types). There are a couple times I've found them in the real world still in employment as coders, but they are becoming increasingly rare. I don't know where most of the displaced ISTJs work now, but it's probably in accounting (which is, curiously-enough, something that coders often do at some point in their careers, and something in which I've never had the slightest interest).

In ancient software development companies, maybe, but those have almost all gone the way of the dinosaur.
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