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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by wolverine876 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @06:04PM (#29479302)
I understand that, but eventually they need to evaluate performance, for promotions, demotions, raises, cuts, hiring, firing, etc. How is that done?
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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by abdabab on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @08:01PM (#29480189)
It’s standard. Career ladder [1] sets expectation for each level. Performance is measured against those expectations. Outages don’t negatively impact a single engineer.

The key difference is the perspective. If reliability is bad that’s an organizational problem and blaming or punishing one engineer won’t fix that.

[1] An example ladder from Patreon: https://levels.patreon.com/

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by wolverine876 on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @11:53PM (#29481393)
> The key difference

The key difference between what and what?

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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by abdabab on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @02:29PM (#29489249)
Your approach and their approach. It sounded like you have a different perspective about who is responsible for an outage.
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