Re:Banks Wage 'Hand-to-Hand Combat' for Tech Talent
by stcredzero on Friday March 14, 2014 @05:59PM
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You just aren't going to be rewarded for doing a good job, because nobody can tell the good from the bad.
That right there is the crux of the matter. Lots of big companies use office politics as a (very poor) proxy for the evaluation of a programming group. Numbers are fictionalized and "old sayings" and programmer memes are used in decision making as if they were facts. Actual numbers that don't fit in with the party line are automatically questioned -- just because.
That right there is the crux of the matter. Lots of big companies use office politics as a (very poor) proxy for the evaluation of a programming group. Numbers are fictionalized and "old sayings" and programmer memes are used in decision making as if they were facts. Actual numbers that don't fit in with the party line are automatically questioned -- just because.