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>The way FAANG fixes that is to make "impact" the first metric of their engineer evaluation process. Basically, you're quite autonomous to pursue your ideas, bu
by marcinzm 4y ago
>The way FAANG fixes that is to make "impact" the first metric of their engineer evaluation process. Basically, you're quite autonomous to pursue your ideas, but need to be able to justify that you contributed the project in meaningful ways.
Isn't the joke that Google as a result makes and kills tons of half baked products without producing any actual business value overall? The product lives just long enough to get people's promotions approved.
- azemetre 4y agoSounds like their heuristic for impact is wrong then.
- marcinzm 4y agoThere is no viable heuristic because everyone has an incentive to game the system. Even managers. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" The closest one is short term improvements tied to revenue and measured using ab testing. But even those get gamed.