Re:What's a senior engineer's job?
by taneq on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:36AM
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> time estimation in software is not a useful activity
Only so long as you're developing your software in complete isolation from anyone else.
In terms of possibility, if you're not doing moonshot R&D then you should be able to give a reasonably bounded estimate (which occasionally will be wrong, but c'est la vie) of how long it will take to fix an issue or implement a feature. If you can't do that then IMO you aren't a senior engineer.
Only so long as you're developing your software in complete isolation from anyone else.
In terms of possibility, if you're not doing moonshot R&D then you should be able to give a reasonably bounded estimate (which occasionally will be wrong, but c'est la vie) of how long it will take to fix an issue or implement a feature. If you can't do that then IMO you aren't a senior engineer.