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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by chris_wot on Thursday August 11, 2022 @12:34AM (#32421627)
Surely you don’t blindly accept estimates? Do you dig down and ask what assumptions they are making for how long it will take?

This doesn’t sound like a problem with minimum expectations. This sounds like a project management problem.

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Re:'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg so... by khazhoux on Thursday August 11, 2022 @12:55AM (#32421739)
I've been lucky to only ever work at places with very technical managers, who don't blindly accept estimates, and actively work with the developers to figure out how to work faster.

But, the usual pattern for people who work slow, is that some new complication always comes up. And it's not easy to know when the complication is legitimate and will take time to figure out, or something that could easily be dispatched in an hour's time.

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