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One of the big value-adds for a senior engineer is being able to recognize tasks that just don't need to be done, ever, because they just won't contribute much
by eschneider 4y ago
One of the big value-adds for a senior engineer is being able to recognize tasks that just don't need to be done, ever, because they just won't contribute much value relative to other things.
Remember, it's not how much you get done. It's how much of the right stuff you get done.
- twawaaay 4y agoYeah, exactly. Now explain to somebody they need to come up with a measurements for all the things I have very efficiently declined to do... saving everybody time, effort and helping the really important task get the bandwidth it needed.
- hnfong 4y agoEasy, I'll just ask my colleague to come up with impractical, expensive ideas and I'll reject them all for great profit!