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I literally cannot name a single person like this in my entire career. Yes, less than ideal performs, but nobody that's utterly useless or spending all day on s
by SkyPuncher 4y ago
I literally cannot name a single person like this in my entire career. Yes, less than ideal performs, but nobody that's utterly useless or spending all day on side projects.
- boredtofears 4y agoSame here until my most recent job that I took just this year. The amount of brain waste is staggering.
- watwut 4y agoI knew an utterly useless guy. He was good at making impression of a good programmer - read right blogs and had correct opinions. Probably reads HN and definitely knows all the fads. It is just that, he never produced anything. I worked with him twice. They moved him between teams and both times he got absurd amount of benefit of doubt (one of the companies was firing people quickly, but not him). Anyway based on what I heard, he did nothing whole his career. But like, he was definitely not a norm.
- acdha 4y agoIn 3 decades I think I’ve met a couple of programmers like that, but about a dozen managers and at least half of the consultants. It’s pretty hard to pull off in a position which usually has some kind of directly-measurable product.