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Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by mercer on Thursday August 10, 2017 @02:27PM (#14982647)
I agree with both of you.

In corporate environments that I've experienced, the otherwise very argumentative developers would never actually challenge Employee No. 9610 in their basic skills. There's a formal distance in every interaction, pros and cons.

But in the few startup environments (<15 people) the culture was much closer, and there's no way that they would not have been 'caught' very early on, probably even in the first interview.

Re:A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its... by majormajor on Thursday August 10, 2017 @08:19PM (#14985607)
In larger environments this is exactly what process exists for.

Even the nicest manager and teammates in the world don't have to proactively call someone out on being incompetent if every sprint their tickets are going unfinished, etc. And with the tooling, it's an automatic paper trail.