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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by jcadam on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:34AM (#18959625)
I've done that sort of work. Eventually you realize that nobody notices the guy who tracked down and killed that vexatious heisenbug in the legacy code base. You need to be working on the new, shiny, high-visibility projects or your career is going to stagnate.
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Re:When hiring senior engineers, you’re not buying, you’re s... by nailer on Monday January 21, 2019 @07:03AM (#18959774)
Or change the culture.

Friday demo day (to sales and cust success and everyone else): "hey everyone, know that thing customer X keep complaining about that we've never been able to solve? It's been super tricky. Just wanted to announce that James here figured it out and it's fixed forever. James you're a hero."

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