And then there's the whole thing about measuring productivity. It's very hard for many managers to understand the qualitative status of a codebase, and to conne

And then there's the whole thing about measuring productivity. It's very hard for many managers to understand the qualitative status of a codebase, and to connect future task effectiveness with past decisions that affected that quality. So the average manager doesn't actually know how to judge productivity. I don't think they think they know, and just are mistaken. I think they know they don't know. So what do they have to go on? Pay, and conformity with their own set of best-loved personality traits (called "cultural fit").