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Re:How to succeed at Meta as SWE – focus on metrics, ignore ... by AlexandrB on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:39PM (#33195556)
I'm pretty convinced that there's no set of metrics that can effectively capture productivity and business goals without being gamed. It seems to me that the only effective management system is a "web of trust" style system where middle managers have a lot more autonomy to make decisions based on their own judgement. Unfortunately it's hard to legally CYA if something goes wrong with that kind of setup and it has other vulnerabilities like being manipulated by sociopaths.

Overall, managing people at scale is always going to be a hard problem and it seems unlikely that technology will ever offer a satisfactory solution.

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Re:How to succeed at Meta as SWE – focus on metrics, ignore ... by fhsm on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:17PM (#33197181)
Self destructing measurement:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

All else equal, easy to capture proxies make good metrics; however, the point is that all else will not be equal.

Also, the CYAed version of web of trust is a “360 review”. Going all in on 360s is a good way to unleashing reality tv dynamics in a previously banal workplace.

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