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Re:Robinhood lays off 23% of staff by eschneider on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @07:50AM (#32330447)
One of the big value-adds for a senior engineer is being able to recognize tasks that just don't need to be done, ever, because they just won't contribute much value relative to other things. Remember, it's not how much you get done. It's how much of the right stuff you get done.
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Re:Robinhood lays off 23% of staff by twawaaay on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @07:59AM (#32330534)
Yeah, exactly. Now explain to somebody they need to come up with a measurements for all the things I have very efficiently declined to do... saving everybody time, effort and helping the really important task get the bandwidth it needed.
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Re:Robinhood lays off 23% of staff by hnfong on Thursday August 04, 2022 @05:50AM (#32341007)
Easy, I'll just ask my colleague to come up with impractical, expensive ideas and I'll reject them all for great profit!
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