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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by acchow on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @10:50PM (#31268806)
> 6 engineers focused on rewriting the form to input credit cards on YouTube for 3 years.

Can you explain how this gets them promos? I feel like a promo-focused culture would result in 6 engineers creating a new server-side rendering framework so that they can improve credit card input rendering speed - possibly equally useless, but much more work.

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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by _j5l3 on Thursday May 05, 2022 @06:36AM (#31271646)
> result in 6 engineers creating a new server-side rendering framework so that they can improve credit card input rendering speed - possibly equally useless, but much more work.

We didn't create our own, but we did migrate our codebase to a new server-side rendering framework twice in my time there.

Also, nobody on our team ever got promoted.

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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by bryanrasmussen on Thursday May 05, 2022 @02:25AM (#31270208)
>creating a new server-side rendering framework so that they can improve credit card input rendering speed - possibly equally useless

at the scale of Google I'm not sure I would consider that useless. But it would definitely feel useless.

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Re:The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-or... by reindeerer on Thursday May 05, 2022 @02:01AM (#31270060)
Those rendering frameworks are being written as well, for no other reason than promo
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