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A comment on Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering Managers. Parent comment

Re:Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering M... by lifeisstillgood on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:30AM (#20533252)
>>> For most people, salary correlates with measurable influence, and there’s nothing more measurable than head count. So maybe you’re right about certain orgs, but I wouldn’t advise any young turks to bet on it. Basically, every nerd thinks they’re gonna be Jeff Dean...but there’s only one Jeff Dean, and his job is taken.

absolutely this

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Re:Square’s Growth Framework for Engineers and Engineering M... by lifeisstillgood on Saturday July 27, 2019 @12:03PM (#20542617)
The point to take away here was measurable influence.

Just as in how sales people can be on commission but no one puts fifty developers on commission the ability to measure is as important as the metric itself

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