Of the ~20 or so MS folks here from across the company there's only 2 other actual developers. The rest are PM, leads, and biz ops. Why is this and do other companies represent like this too? I feel there should be more devs sent...
I believe we exclusively send engineers to Google I/O. Not sure this is necessarily true accros the board.
Devs know better, they can watch it all at home. PMs go to Dutch Rudder each other
Did you see Chance the Rapper?
devs believe what they're told :p
Devs are evaluated on actual development work. Going to conferences eats into your productivity. You can stay up to date with all the cool stuff announced at these conferences by just reading the news.
Dev has no budget to travel even if they want to.
lots of companies do this, throw away conference budget sending pm top tech conf... issue is usually politics at company with pms being favorites and devs not having that standing
Cuz devs don't make the decisions :/