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Re:Do the Hardest Thing by steno132 on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:04PM (#48418256)
Seems like you tore through some outdated Jira tickets, which is cool, but what was the impact of your work?

Hard doesn't mean impactful. In fact that's one of the biggest mistakes I see junior engineers make! But glad you got that learning experience, as you become more senior you'll definitely develop a better understanding of what drives actual impact.

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Re:Do the Hardest Thing by the-smug-one on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:12PM (#48418388)
Why are you being so condescending? A person wants to get into an open source project, so takes work he knows others won't finish before him, and you're talking to him like he's a noob (you have no clue how long ago this was). Hell, you don't even know if the tickets were outdated.
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Re:Do the Hardest Thing by ahartmetz on Saturday June 06, 2026 @05:41AM (#48423151)
>impact

Not everything in life is correctly evaluated according to Meta performance review criteria, probably not even what people are doing at Meta.

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