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Someone who's consistently working extra spoils the situation for the rest of the team. They'll eventually end up having the most knowledge and experience sinc
by Merad 4y ago
Someone who's consistently working extra spoils the situation for the rest of the team. They'll eventually end up having the most knowledge and experience since they're working with the code more and they'll almost certainly be the most productive person on the team. When it's time for reviews, raises, and promotions who do you think a naive manager will flag as the all star top performer on the team? One can argue that that's fine and they deserve the raises and promotions because they're working extra, but it ends up putting the team in a very unhealthy place where the other team members can't really compete with the workaholic unless they too start working extra.
- DanUKs 4y agoI'm facing this exact problem. The guy that works on the weekend, is unfortunately the most senior engineer on our team (it's quite sad really. He has nothing to prove, a wife and kid, yet he works weekends with no reward). He's setting the benchmark higher and higher with everything he's doing. It adds zero value, yet he still does it. It leaves us other devs having to keep up for the sake of it. Burn out here we come.