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> By comparison... is the operative phrase. Your fallacy is conflating engineering work and an individual engineer's scope on said work. Projects can fail, e
by ericfrenkiel 9y ago
> By comparison...
is the operative phrase.
Your fallacy is conflating engineering work and an individual engineer's scope on said work.
Projects can fail, engineering teams can face delays - all common things. But an individual engineer is very unlikely to lose his/her job over it, in contrast to a sales person missing on his/her quarterly number repeatedly.
- skj 9y agoThe point under contention is whether or not the completion of the project is completely under the engineer's control.
- freyir 9y agoYou're backtracking. You claimed an engineer's work is deterministic and fully under his or her control. That may be true for a very limited subset of jobs, where engineers are doing essentially trivial tasks, but more generally, that is false. Are engineers less likely to be held accountable for missing goals due to external factors? That depends on the organization, but that's an entirely different claim.