5 ms·
>push for organizational improvements doesn't pay the light bill > a cog in a feature factory pays the light bills. YMMV
by grepfru_it 7y ago
>push for organizational improvements
doesn't pay the light bill
> a cog in a feature factory
pays the light bills.
YMMV
- busterarm 7y agoDisagree. The answer is somewhere in the middle. Every time some failing startup does a large layoff round, there's always questions of "why does X need Y many engineers?". Too many cogs in a broken organization is just burning dollars and electricity.
- grepfru_it 7y agodo things manually for as long as possible until you need to automate it.
- busterarm 7y agoAt some point automating becomes a full-time job. And that's literally what I do.