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Anyone who isn't directly contributing to a product can't be high performing. Maybe they can be supportive of high performing individuals, but usually that just
by SQueeeeeL 4y ago
Anyone who isn't directly contributing to a product can't be high performing. Maybe they can be supportive of high performing individuals, but usually that just entails keeping upper management out of the way.
As a field we have yet to find good metrics for coding performance, anyone who tells you otherwise just wants to have an excuse to fire you when they suddenly decide that you no longer serve their purposes, even if those purposes is just to have a cool social club that validates their fragile ego.
- joshstrange 4y agoI couldn't agree more, especially about the lack of good metrics for coding performance. I feel like more often than not metrics or even new "policies" are put into place just to provide cover for firing people. So they can "backsolve" or use "parallel construction" to justify the firing.
- sbf501 4y ago> Anyone who isn't directly contributing to a product can't be high performing. Are you implying managers don't directly contribute to a product? Because wow, you're really either horribly naive or wildly narcissistic. As a someone who managed programmers for almost 20 years, only a fraction were hands-off. Why do you think all the 10x engineers become managers? A high performing manager hits targets, ships products, and makes customers happy. If you think a hot shot programmer on a team can do this all by themselves, I don't know what to tell you. You'll have to learn the hard way.