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Some "old school" management styles measure LoC and make hiring/firing decisions based on that. Really.

• tartoran 4y ago
  Someone should enlighten them that less LOC is good in solving a problem, granted that the code is also more maintenable due to smaller surface area and no bad shortcuts were taken. Yes, it’s hard for management types to get that, perhaps because most of them want the problems entrenchability creates, and that for their own … benefits.
  • grangerg 4y ago
    Perhaps tell them the story of the 10x carpenter. Obviously, the one who uses the most wood wins! ;) If told right, they should easily figure out why LoC is a horrible metric.
    • sokoloff 4y ago
      Or airplane builder…
• heromal 4y ago
  I had a recruiter ask me a few days ago, on behalf of the HM, how many lines of code I've written in my career. I told him that's a very weird question, and said nothing else. Needless to say, they're passing on me.
  • eurasiantiger 4y ago
    It might have been an estimation task, akin to a Fermi problem.
    • ianmcgowan 4y ago
      That's charitable, but leads to a new "how many manhole" questions - how many programmers in NYC will write fizzbuzz on a whiteboard this week?