Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?

Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management ... by TheOtherHobbes on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:47AM (#15034883)

In many companies you get paid for status, not for productivity or value.

Management doesn't want super-performers, because they can upset the power dynamic.

Developers must have lower status than management, and super-performers can challenge that.

Companies are actually social networks. Instead of gaining status by posting selfies of yourself in exotic locations with cool people, you gain status by making high status noises in emails, talking in a high status way, having many people reporting to you, and having equity.

Sometimes getting things done is relevant too, but not as often as it should be.

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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management ... by morgante on Thursday August 17, 2017 @04:52AM (#15034920)

Exactly, that's why I think this is one of the biggest examples of mismanagement out there.

For me, it's actually not about the compensation for its own sake. It's that compensation is a strong signal of how the company thinks about the status of developers.

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