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There is a distinction, though, between feeling that certification can be gamed and thinking that the goals outlined are poor In that debacle they laid off 600
by gaius 9y ago
There is a distinction, though, between feeling that certification can be gamed and thinking that the goals outlined are poor
In that debacle they laid off 6000 people in the West, including me. Shortly afterwards they realised that they were unable to ship or even maintain the product. Shortly after that, they were taken over by a rival. The CEO who drove all this pocketed an 8-figure sum and walked away... It's clear what the "goals" were.
- taeric 9y agoThat seriously sucks and you have my sympathies. I think this ultimately runs into the field that as soon as you define what the grading criteria is, then there arises the serious risk of gaming the system. Especially when that grading criteria is a proxy of the actual value that the company is creating. That is, at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is value delivered to the customer. Any other proxy measure ultimately doesn't matter. Good for prediction capabilities up to the point that they are gamed for the same prediction capabilities.