64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken seriously as a job applicant

Re:64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken serious... by JMTQp8lwXL on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @01:32PM (#19028712)

Many roles are difficult to quantifiably measure. The same is true for software engineers-- suppose two developers are shipping code, but one writes 2x as many lines of code. Do we say they're twice as productive, or delivering twice as much business value? Not necessarily.

But there should be something that can be measured, even if it's imprecise, to at least show that something's being done. How do you measure the success criteria for the role of a PM? It's challenging. But it should be done.

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Re:64 and unemployed: One man's struggle to be taken serious... by crispyambulance on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @02:38PM (#19029201)

Measure and "quantifiably measure" are two different things. I agree that performance can and should be evaluated, however, for many jobs that is an intrinsically subjective task.

There's nothing wrong with that. It's just the nature of such roles.

You still evaluate, you just don't boil it down to one "score".

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