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It's called Survivorship bias. Before coming here, I too thought the same. That the stories were exaggerated, that those experiences were outliers and a minorit
by northern-lights 5y ago
It's called Survivorship bias. Before coming here, I too thought the same. That the stories were exaggerated, that those experiences were outliers and a minority. But then I saw my team's L6 SDE get put on Focus within a year of joining and leave. If they had caused Sev1s or broken something critical, then perhaps justified. But no such thing.
This place puts you in the middle of the ocean when you don't know how to swim. You either sink or swim.
- amzn-throw 5y ago> If they had caused Sev1s or broken something critical, then perhaps justified. That's not the metric for success or failure. It's delivering results.
- northern-lights 5y agoExcept there are 14 LPs and nobody says any one LP is superior to the rest. If you need to consider "Deliver Results" supreme irrespective of anything else, then it needs to be made clear. Just do away with the rest of the LPs.