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Nobody got promoted for improving core functionality.
by snarfy 2y ago
Nobody got promoted for improving core functionality.
- jacobr1 2y agoPeople get promoted for improving key metrics. Like Revenue or Retention or Installs or whatever. Metrics can be abused and gamed ... but you can do a better job aligning them to improvement than the de-facto metrics of "number buzzwords in a new shiny toy"
- reaperducer 2y agoNobody got promoted for improving core functionality. It depends on the company. If you work for a hyper-scale tech company that only cares about money money money, then yeah -- nobody's getting promoted for improving core functionality. But I've worked at several companies where that sort of thing is not only rewarded, but celebrated. One was a factory. Another was healthcare. Tech is the aberation, but on HN we pretend that it's normal and good.