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Re:Every DoorDash employee, from engineers to CEO, will make... by structural on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @04:08PM (#29718205)
These days it's a lucky accident when the engineers and the end users are on the same continent and maybe speak the same language. The business will certainly optimize for lowest cost until it becomes so bad that it's impossible to overlook.

Managing by walking around is still amazingly more successful than managing by arbitrary metrics, but it's still rare.

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Re:Every DoorDash employee, from engineers to CEO, will make... by dragonwriter on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @05:08PM (#29718864)
> These days it's a lucky accident when the engineers and the end users are on the same continent and maybe speak the same language

Seems to me that dealing with that is even more of a problem with requiring engineers to do one particular class of the work one day a month as it is for having the engineers engage with those during the work as part of product design and development, so I’m not sure what relevance it has to the present discussion.

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