Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber

Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber by hueving on Monday February 20, 2017 @02:10AM (#13685083)

>Outside of truly unique skills, it's basically true - engineers are interchangeable with sufficient time to ramp up.

That qualification at the end makes it false.

If I have to give someone 1 year to learn all of the minute details of the behavior of TCP across the various operating systems clients use, the behavior of packet re-ordering in LAG algorithms, convergence times of BGP, etc, then they are most definitely not interchangeable with someone who does know these things.

Any manager who thinks this way is incompetent and will impose massive opportunity costs on the company by not fighting for raises for existing good employees under the guise that they can be easily replaced.

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Re:Reflecting on one very, very strange year at Uber by acjohnson55 on Monday February 20, 2017 @11:03AM (#13688334)

Everything's a matter of degree. So maybe it takes longer or shorter depending on how big the shoes are. But that bundle of knowledge you cited seems learnable in a year.

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