> "being good at stuff" matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff I've recently figured this out a out the company where I work, after an embarrassin

> "being good at stuff" matters far less than the appearance of doing stuff I've recently figured this out a out the company where I work, after an embarrassingly large number of years. My manager pays lip service to "high quality code" to justify his endless torrent of nitpicks, but when it comes to his own stuff he hides some times serious problems. Like, seriously, I've found undeniable evidence that he was aware of the malfunctioning of a data collection system and instead of reporting/fixing, he made sure to make it harder for anyone else to find it. He's very well respected, however, and has this incredible aura of professionalism. This realization also explains why everything is done so poorly in my company. Hitting the ill defined requirements in letter but not in principle, and then blaming a different team when problems are uncovered, is more than enough.