Re:How to succeed at Meta as SWE – focus on metrics, ignore ...
by seanmcdirmid on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:03PM
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How would they go about associating engineering effort with customer impact when they have a bunch of sales people, product managers, project managers, UX designers, and so on, in between them? Heck, any large company where there is a division of labor will begin running into the problem of relating individual performance to overall customer impact, and if you begin measuring everyone by that singular metric, you will lose all of your good engineers very quickly (they will switch companies or move to non-engineering roles that have direct customer impact).
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Re:How to succeed at Meta as SWE – focus on metrics, ignore ...
by woooooo on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:05PM
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Customer impact, business impact, some other subjective or objective measure.
The point is that there's a thing you're trying to accomplish with a project and the engineering techniques should be a means to an end rather than an end in themselves.