Re:What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
by Bartweiss on Monday December 12, 2016 @10:39AM
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I think Goodhart's Law is in effect here.
As a management metric, I would find this concerning - perverse incentives and false positives all over the place. But as a personal observation, I'm going to take it to heart.
This (like most other metrics) seems most useful from a starting point of "while doing my daily work and seeking to write good code, I will apply this". That doesn't make a good tool for deciding who's talented, but I'm still going to remember it.
As a management metric, I would find this concerning - perverse incentives and false positives all over the place. But as a personal observation, I'm going to take it to heart.
This (like most other metrics) seems most useful from a starting point of "while doing my daily work and seeking to write good code, I will apply this". That doesn't make a good tool for deciding who's talented, but I'm still going to remember it.