Advice From The Onion's Tech Team

Hey editors, listen to your developers!

     The Onion’s tech team doesn’t like Willy Wonka’s model.

     Too many publications approach their developers as though they were little more than Oompa Loompas, interchangeable drones that do their master’s bidding without providing any input of their own. And that makes for bad candy, says Jeff Weston, The Onion’s lead developer.

     “It looks like Willy Wonka is producing magic,” Weston tells Adweek. “But really there’s a huge team of laborers working behind the scenes.

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