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> And a bad engineer can destroy as much. Often claimed, rarely proven. Usually in those cases it's actually management doing the value-destroying, by either
by vonmoltke 8y ago
> And a bad engineer can destroy as much.
Often claimed, rarely proven. Usually in those cases it's actually management doing the value-destroying, by either misallocating people or refusing to act on removing bad engineers.
- tootahe45 8y agoIf you have a good engineer who is constantly tutoring the bad instead of building things, then you are losing a good portion of value (the $10m that would've otherwise been created) by the good engineer. This is not as big a problem for Google with thousands of engineers but is a huge problem in smaller startups.