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> A field which has so many tools to objectively quantify their work On the contrary, I think the problem is that these tools do not exist.
by HL33tibCe7 4y ago
> A field which has so many tools to objectively quantify their work
On the contrary, I think the problem is that these tools do not exist.
- PaulHoule 4y ago... and that many of the tools we use are dangerously wrong. For instance there is the continuous thread about the difficulties hiring and being hired. There are various snake oil practices such as stack ranking and OKRs (e.g. if you want to drop 20 atom bombs on your startup... OKRs. They are fine for monopolist pyramids that will succeed no matter how much they fail who want to create safe spaces for narcissists while heading off any threats that sensitive and intelligent people might pose to the power structures) It is very possible for one programmer A to say "programmer B is an idiot" even when programmer B can say "I picked up a project that A was working on and going in circles on for two years and finished it in one year."