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Sounds extremely charitable to me. There is no indication from the OP they’re solving crazy hard problems requiring a ton of thought, or that they’re actually t
by azinman2 5y ago
Sounds extremely charitable to me. There is no indication from the OP they’re solving crazy hard problems requiring a ton of thought, or that they’re actually thinking about said problems while goofing off.
It just sounds like they’ve managed to get enough done to get by, and continue skating like this. I’ve seen quite of few people do this professionally. It’s just important to be honest about it.
My guess is there’s a motivation problem, which may be from the job itself, or something else.
- shawnz 5y agoAren't the positive performance reviews such an indication?
- soneca 5y agoI don’t think so. I just think they are a bullshit artist. Where is that very critical HN opinions of extrovert MBAs that don’t or know do anything, but keep getting promotions because they are good at bullshitting? Suddenly if it is a fellow engineer doing the same they are actually “working in the back of their minds in very hard problems”? How convenient.
- shawnz 5y agoI've never posted anything like that, and there are plenty of critical posts in this thread from others regardless.
- azinman2 5y agoThey said they range from mediocre to positive. We don’t know what the bar is where they work, but it seems they’re just barely meeting it. Imagine if they actually worked a whole week, every week!