Re:I wrote the SQL query in 5 mins. Why does my engineer say...
by dragonwriter on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:58AM
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> Are you aware that your observation does not generalize very well to developers overall?
I was responding to (as should be clear, since I quoted it) an upthread generalization about what “timesheet-padding developers” would or would not do. It's expressly not a statement about developers generally.
> Back on earth I can tell you full time devs at big 4 tech companies padding estimates would be a very difficult thing
And pointless, since they aren't paid hourly. Timesheet-padding is only incentivized when developers are paid (or work for a company that is paid) based on timesheets, that is, hourly.
But, anyway, I wasn't talking about padding estimates, that was the poster I was responding to. My observations was that developers with incentive to pad timesheets often will do the opposite of padding estimates, going for quick and dirty development solutions which create more maintenance and support hours (of course, that only occurs as a result of structural incentives where the contractors building the system or feature also expect to be supporting it, but that's often the case.)
I was responding to (as should be clear, since I quoted it) an upthread generalization about what “timesheet-padding developers” would or would not do. It's expressly not a statement about developers generally.
> Back on earth I can tell you full time devs at big 4 tech companies padding estimates would be a very difficult thing
And pointless, since they aren't paid hourly. Timesheet-padding is only incentivized when developers are paid (or work for a company that is paid) based on timesheets, that is, hourly.
But, anyway, I wasn't talking about padding estimates, that was the poster I was responding to. My observations was that developers with incentive to pad timesheets often will do the opposite of padding estimates, going for quick and dirty development solutions which create more maintenance and support hours (of course, that only occurs as a result of structural incentives where the contractors building the system or feature also expect to be supporting it, but that's often the case.)