Re:If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to ...
by Seb-C on Friday November 18, 2022 @08:19PM
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I've been the lone guy seriously working in a team of do-nothing.
You can definitely get away doing nothing as an engineer if the project manager is too busy or does not care. Also works if your direct manager is himself a do-nothing, or a developer that for promoted and actually does not have any management knowledge or experience.
Of course the real problem is that the whole organization is dysfunctional, but there is no right or easy way to fix this problem, except try to identify the honest guys and fire everyone else. Because most of the alternatives ends up with the minority of productive guys quitting.
In my experience those do-nothings tend to be near the top of the pyramid.
At the engineer level it's harder to get away with doing nothing because you're constantly being told what to do and then you get evaluated to see if you actually did what you were tasked with doing.
As you go higher up the food chain, some can get away with claiming they're doing everything while taking credit for other people's ideas and work, while the only thing they actually do is order people around.