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If an engineer causes an outage by mistake and then ensures that would never happen again, he has made a positive impact.

• wolverine876 5y ago
  I understand that, but eventually they need to evaluate performance, for promotions, demotions, raises, cuts, hiring, firing, etc. How is that done?
  • abdabab 5y ago
    It’s standard. Career ladder [1] sets expectation for each level. Performance is measured against those expectations. Outages don’t negatively impact a single engineer. The key difference is the perspective. If reliability is bad that’s an organizational problem and blaming or punishing one engineer won’t fix that. [1] An example ladder from Patreon: https://levels.patreon.com/ https://levels.patreon.com/
    • wolverine876 5y ago
      > The key difference The key difference between what and what?
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      • abdabab 5y ago
        Your approach and their approach. It sounded like you have a different perspective about who is responsible for an outage.