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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by sokoloff on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @12:24PM (#31262599)
The whole point of a tech company is to pay engineers $X and find a way for them to create some over-unity multiple of $X in value.

If the problem is “this incentivizes engineers to make each other deliver more value”, that sounds like not a problem (and opens everyone up for increasing $X).

It’s a problem when you start to see your fellow employees as the competition instead of your actual competitors being the competition.

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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by ShamelessC on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @02:41PM (#31264249)
It's a problem for people who value working on things that actually get used for more than a few years and aren't duplicate efforts to make some line on some graph go up somewhere.

These are of course people, after all. Not robots.

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