Re:That wild Ask a Manager story
by jackblemming on Monday February 14, 2022 @08:39PM
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It’s sad the author even had to write this article, but a lot of devs do act and think like this. It’s also one of the reasons bullshit bureaucracy seems to be ever growing.
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Re:That wild Ask a Manager story
by doctor_eval on Monday February 14, 2022 @09:43PM
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Not just developers - I think it’s endemic among certain types of manager.
Every time there’s a fire, they want to build a new fire engine.
Apparently Netflix's CEO designed the processes in his company to avoid just this trap.
Re:That wild Ask a Manager story
by throwawaysleep on Monday February 14, 2022 @09:38PM
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A lot of that is just developer/general employee incentives.
As an employee, it is far more important for me to avoid blame than to be efficient as I will get no credit for marginal improvements/no hit for marginal harms, but will get blamed if there is a very noticeable bad incident.
I am far more likely to have an annoyed boss from the wrong person showing up to work than driving away 100 candidates as the interview seemed hostile.