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Re:Ask HN: How does your company do performance reviews? by pjc50 on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @06:26AM (#14909398)
"[manager] didn't want to assume any blame for this"

This happens depressingly often.

"6 monts working on the equivalent of 2 weeks of estimation points"

It's really the fault of the manager for not changing something after the first 3 weeks of this.

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Re:Ask HN: How does your company do performance reviews? by throwaway413 on Sunday August 06, 2017 @09:05AM (#14941128)
This exact thing has happened to me before - you have to be strong enough to stand up for yourself and communicate the real problem or else, yeah, no one will want to take responsibility and it ALWAYS falls back on the dev team.

Sometimes it's tough to be that ass and say "hey, these weren't estimated properly PM!"...but if it's your job or theirs...

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