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That depends on the situation and is the CTO's decision to make. Given the difficulty and time frames of hiring letting go could mean another 6 months of too fe
by marcinzm 7y ago
That depends on the situation and is the CTO's decision to make. Given the difficulty and time frames of hiring letting go could mean another 6 months of too few engineers. Acting like there is a single universal answer is the wrong world view I'd say.
- wpietri 7y agoIf you have a nominally full compliment of people who are over-building or playing around with shiny toys instead of delivering value, then you still have too few actual engineers, but are paying a lot more money for the privilege. You're also setting up a bill that will come due eventually. I've made some really good money going into companies and ripping out the hot-three-years-ago garbage that some long-gone goof put in. Last time this happened I looked up the responsible party. Turned out he was doing the work so he could give a conference talk on shiny tech. Not long after the talk was done, he took a job somewhere else, leaving his buzzword-compliant half-baked system to rot.