4 ms·
> It seems to me the business side of companies takes over the entire culture of the company and everyone needs to think in terms of customer needs and whatever
by re-thc 2y ago
> It seems to me the business side of companies takes over the entire culture of the company and everyone needs to think in terms of customer needs and whatever makes profit
Yet a lot of times engineers do help make profit, e.g. optimize the application or infrastructure often savings thousands to millions of $$$. It doesn't earn them a good pass at review though.
- proc0 2y agoYes that would be a shame. I think usually those changes do get recognized but perhaps for the wrong reasons. While it's fine to recognize how much profit the business is making, the engineering role should be recognized for how well the system is implemented and working. It's a subtle but important difference. I have seen so many teams with talented engineers yet they produce brittle code that breaks all the time and is hard to develop, and I suspect it's because they're constantly thinking about how their changes will add business value instead of how well the system is being engineered (which should indirectly add that value anyway).