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The people who should be put on PIP are the dead weight (non-technical management). Fire them and most of this "difficult behavior" magically disappears. They'r
by sublinear 3y ago
The people who should be put on PIP are the dead weight (non-technical management). Fire them and most of this "difficult behavior" magically disappears. They're the biggest source of miscommunication, worthless meetings, wasted time, bad estimates, imprecise language, and flat out lies.
If the software engineers were left to actually do engineering instead of also having to spend half their day silently picking up the slack for these figureheads, maybe shit would actually get done.
- sgarland 3y agoMy company started a sales org shortly after I arrived, which was disappointing as it was extremely engineering-heavy initially. My fears were correct, as it has been steadily going downhill from an engineering perspective. But hey, line goes up and to the right so it must be a great idea.
- javajosh 3y agoI think management often believes it's existence is justified by "protecting" the engineers. Of course, they are protecting them from other managers. So it's an arms race - or more technically, going from the good Nash equilibrium to the bad one.