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The gospel of metrics in tech management is toxic.
by closeparen 6y ago
The gospel of metrics in tech management is toxic.
- aeternum 6y agoIf you were running engineering, what would you use instead? How would you determine salaries and bonuses? Going by completely subjective metrics is pretty unfair, everyone has some amount of bias.
- closeparen 6y agoHuman judgement. A manager stupid enough to be worse at evaluating engineers than metrics are would struggle to keep himself fed and warm, and is therefore not a realistic threat.