> This is why when companies see solutions like GitPrime, GitHub Insights, and other similar solutions, they get very excited because they feel they found that

> This is why when companies see solutions like GitPrime, GitHub Insights, and other similar solutions, they get very excited because they feel they found that magical translator that can help them better manage tech employees. If you promote people based on metrics from GitHub Insights you will end up with an awful organization. Employees are not stupid, they can manipulate any metric you use to measure their performance. For example, if you promote the engineers that get the most commits, then people will conspire to delay code reviews so that only their friends get their commits merged in a timely manner. Or they will break their deliverables into an absurd amount of commits so that they get credited with the most commits. > I honestly think this is a luxury for a lot of companies No, it's not. The real luxury is hiring entire teams of capable people and then ask someone that has no clue about what's going on to tell them what to do. Not only it's a waste of time for every engineer, it's a waste of time for the engineers families and the education system that made their formation possible. Learning about differential and integral calculus, differential equations, mechanics, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, discrete mathematics, theory of computation, compilers, databases, programming languages, data structures and algorithms, cryptography, information security, operating systems, networking, how to make a computer from scratch from logic gates, etc... only so that in the end you have to talk to a completely clueless guy that has no qualifications whatsoever but has "managerial soft skills" (psychopathic traits).