Re:Ask HN: Could you train someone to do your job in a month?
by JoeAltmaier on Friday April 19, 2024 @07:27AM
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To go through the motions? Sure. To do the job right the first time and completely, not a chance.
It takes more than a month to come up to speed in a new environment - new tools, new processes, new goals and constraints, you go home every night with your head hurting and tired from sweating it.
And that's if you've done most of it before. Getting that context, internalizing it so you can do the work without second-guessing yourself on every little thing, that takes a long time for anybody.
Velocity, the Agile people call it. That's why folks are paid less, maybe half what an experienced 'resource' gets paid, for maybe a year. Until they do enough to be worth keeping around!
It takes more than a month to come up to speed in a new environment - new tools, new processes, new goals and constraints, you go home every night with your head hurting and tired from sweating it.
And that's if you've done most of it before. Getting that context, internalizing it so you can do the work without second-guessing yourself on every little thing, that takes a long time for anybody.
Velocity, the Agile people call it. That's why folks are paid less, maybe half what an experienced 'resource' gets paid, for maybe a year. Until they do enough to be worth keeping around!