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Re:Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014) by yongjik on Sunday March 21, 2021 @07:07PM (#26534991)
Counterpoint: when every developer is urged to build something with "measurable impact", you end up like Google, where people launch something visible, get promoted, and move on, leaving the service to wither away.
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Re:Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014) by Swizec on Sunday March 21, 2021 @07:18PM (#26535045)
Arguably that means you have bad easy-to-game metrics. I wouldn't call what many (most?) Googlers do "impactful". More like "Let's keep a bunch of smart people busy so they don't get hired by our competition"

If the service you built withers away when you move to a different team, it was a pet project that The Business doesn't care about (because it has zero impact). Literally the definition of a bullshit busywork job :)

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Re:Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014) by austhrow743 on Monday March 22, 2021 @02:39AM (#26537508)
How is this a counterpoint? The above is advice to developers seeking to improve their career, not executives at large public companies making hiring policy decisions.
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Re:Don't End the Week with Nothing (2014) by Chris2048 on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:01AM (#26540877)
The fact that goog is well known for starting projects then killing them, suggests to me they don't really appreciate the measurable impact of their work.
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