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Sure. It’s a cool issue to work on and maybe actually relevant at Google scale. But I’ve asked your colleagues multiple time if the business side actually cared
by lobochrome 3y ago
Sure. It’s a cool issue to work on and maybe actually relevant at Google scale. But I’ve asked your colleagues multiple time if the business side actually cared about the issue and they never confirmed.
Again, cool to work on at Google. Not sure anybody else cares. If you care (finance) you fix it in hardware (system z).
- withinboredom 3y agoWhy would the business side ever care about technical details? It's like asking the business what days the dumpsters get emptied. Nobody gives a fuck; they just care that it gets done and gets done quickly, correctly, and safely.
- lobochrome 3y agoA CFO knows which factors have a significant impact on the bottom line.
- withinboredom 3y agoIf a CFO knows which days the dumpster is emptied, you have a strange CFO. The metaphor is to point out that there’s a lot of technical details that aren’t tracked (like usually refactoring isn’t tracked independently) and shouldn’t be tracked because they are the normal part of the technical job. A CFO can’t measure it even if they wanted to because nobody else is measuring crazy things, like how fast you walk to the bathroom or any other metrics that are specifically related to doing your job.