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Surely as a manager you understand that pitting people against each other is a recipe for disaster and not a path toward improvement. In other words, never say
by hota_mazi 9y ago
Surely as a manager you understand that pitting people against each other is a recipe for disaster and not a path toward improvement.
In other words, never say "John's code is cleaner than yours", say "I suggest you work on polishing these pull requests".
- wpietri 9y agoI think there are plenty of ways to tell person A that they should learn from person B without pitting them against one another. Normally I talk about this in terms of rubrics for roles and levels. E.g., it's not about Amy versus Betty; it's about how Amy can get from SWE 1 to SWE 2. In the course of that discussion I am totally willing to say, "Pay more attention to the code Betty submits for a code review. She's a solid SWE 2 and you could learn from the way she does X, Y, and Z."