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My experience shadowing an Engineering Director for a week

• astrange 4y ago
  > He added me to a Slack channel where he would share the topics, issues, and Merge Requests(MR) he is working on. How many PRs a week does a director work on there? Seems unusual to have any.
  • londons_explore 4y ago
    In a similar position, I don't write much code anymore, but I review a lot. I don't do the 'you should have made this const' or 'this variable is badly named' type of review... But I do a higher level check that nobody is overcomplicating simple things and building 37 new microservices when they ought to just be using one that already exists. Overcomplicating simple things is a really common way to justify growing your team, getting a promotion, etc. Suddenly the 'internal printer management team' needs 8 developers, dedicated network bandwidth, and a project roadmap multiple years out with shiny webUI's, when all we really needed was a couple of dumb printers and 0.1 people to manage them.
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    • trallnag 4y ago
      What's the size of your company?
  • waynesoftware 4y ago
    GitLab team member here (the one who was shadowed). Most of my merge requests were for the engineering portions of the company handbook.