Re:Leaving LinkedIn: Choosing Engineering Excellence over Ex...
by sidewndr46 on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @11:41AM
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let me tell you a simple story
1. team A developed some really nice looking graphs from customer data we already collected
2. a member of team A pointed out he is colorblind and the palette did not work for him
3. product manager took the time to research this and figure out how we might make the palette configurable for those who are colorblind
4. CEO got wind of this and called everyone involved into a meeting. The decision of the CEO was no one would ever use colors for any data presentation. The only allowable color was a shade of gray
I'd like to point out that using only a shade of gray for "colors" effectively makes the entire planet colorblind
Re:Leaving LinkedIn: Choosing Engineering Excellence over Ex...
by bluGill on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @12:39PM
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As someone who is colorblind I find shades of gray better than the colors I often see. OTOH, I can see most colors just fine, it is just that some colors most people think are very different look the same to me. There are a handful of people on earth who cannot see colors at all.
Anyway:
I will see that I always worry about super teams because super teams tend to get free rein, so of course they can be faster and more successful. But sometimes that's about the bureaucracy and not even the team members.
I've started projects with a team and due to time factors decided "I'll just take all of this." and it worked out great. That's not because I'm amazing... it's just the old adage about "What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months".
Unfortunately, I've seen places where these super teams / people are setup and endlessly praised and it goes on and on and it becomes very clear it isn't them, it's the structure.