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0 pointsbambataa3y ago0 comments

I was in a team like that. One person in particular would pick ambitious tasks, do a completely inadequate implementation, reject all feedback and then leave everyone else to deal with the production outages.

Unfortunately management only saw the “picks ambitious tasks” and were blind to everything else.

You can’t really blame people for responding to absurd incentives in absurd ways.

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Spivak3y ago· 1 in thread

Ya know what sitting in the manager chair other than not taking feedback I would probably give them kudos too.

Being the person who comes up with mediocre solutions to hard problems is way more impressive than the guy who has expertly designed solutions to easy problems. One of the devs on my team is like that. Everything he writes is like 30% broken from the get go but all his stuff ships and nobody else has the moxy to blindly charge into the unknown and not get stuck because their afraid to cut themselves on edge cases.

artificial3y ago

Just curious, what kind of software is this? Is it ETL stuff or what?

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