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Also the follow up question should be ask: was an engineer who stopped the leak and fix the bug awarded to some reasonable point??
by joering2 8y ago
Also the follow up question should be ask: was an engineer who stopped the leak and fix the bug awarded to some reasonable point??
- dasil003 8y agoNo because it was also caused by an engineer, so this could lead to terrifying incentives.
- sidlls 8y agoHow is this different from rewarding a salesman who rescues a sale that a different salesman had botched?
- dasil003 8y agoBecause you can't purposefully botch a sale in order to later recover it. Also because you can't avoid botching sales by being more conservative or adding more process. In short, sales and engineering have basically nothing in common.
- sidlls 8y agoI don't think GP was talking about a scenario where the same engineer who created the bug fixed it and gets rewarded, rather one where a different engineer fixes it. Of course it wouldn't make sense as you describe it.
- dasil003 8y agoHow do you decide objectively who is responsible for every single bug? The whole thing is ripe for abuse from all sides. You need a blameless culture to have good engineering, not a bounty-based one.
- beokop 8y agoGetting paid a premium to go in and fix other people’s mess is just a regular consulting gig.
- jibal 8y agoWhy should they be? The difficulty and quality of the work isn't dependent on the severity of the bug. Basically you would be creating a lottery.
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