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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by xwdv on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:51PM (#33659951)
Software Engineers aren’t doing things all the time but there is a tremendous amount of company knowledge and experience locked up in them. You basically pay to keep them employed for when you need them. They are paid for value not hours.
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by dont__panic on Friday November 18, 2022 @01:58PM (#33660099)
Well said. I think this is where the 4-day work week and WFH pushes in the software industry get their momentum: most of us don't need to work 40 hours in an office with a manager looking over our shoulder to provide that value.
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Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ... by xwdv on Friday November 18, 2022 @07:22PM (#33665043)
Problem is a lot of people just don’t understand this because they’re used to having a 1:1 relationship between the hours they work and the value they deliver.
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