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This conflates two very different things: cut-throat KPI-driven development practices at companies like Amazon, and the entire current generation of software de
by strken 5y ago
This conflates two very different things: cut-throat KPI-driven development practices at companies like Amazon, and the entire current generation of software developers. You're taking problems caused by the environment and attributing them to a moral deficiency in the people, which is neither fair nor helpful.
- SQueeeeeL 5y agoEnvironment (in general) is what determines skill set, not the other way around. If the interview process makes you focus on leetcode skills, and your manager focuses on LOCs produced and hitting story milestones and less on spending time integrating with the team and learning about legacy codebase; it makes sense those who came out of this environment would be less prepared to tackle certain kinds of problems.