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Re:From Belonging to Burnout, Five Years at Airbnb by seoaeu on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @02:39PM (#30935855)
> the challenge is knowing beforehand what the most impactful engineering work is going to be

If the payoff in the 1% case is high enough, then you don't have to know beforehand! Just do all 100 changes and the one winner pays for all the rest.

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Re:From Belonging to Burnout, Five Years at Airbnb by Vinnl on Thursday April 07, 2022 @03:58AM (#30941864)
Yeah that's what I meant: 1% of engineers might be doing the most impactful work, but all of them have a claim to potentially being that engineer.
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