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I'm sure OP understands that four lines of code can be important. I think it was just different from what they were used to at the early stages of the company,
by yid 11y ago
I'm sure OP understands that four lines of code can be important. I think it was just different from what they were used to at the early stages of the company, where there was perhaps less oversight of engineers. Oversight is necessary at a company the size of today's Google, but it's also possible to be over-encumbered by bureaucracy.
- magicalist 11y agoJust based on human-hours per line of code alone, that level of oversight isn't possible to maintain over that large of a codebase, so it seems impossible for that to be the regular case. More likely it's highly dependent on where that code is, your exact manager chain, etc. It could just as easily be that you picked the week a new manager started or a new process was put in place that turned out to be terrible and was so rolled back.
- yid 11y ago> More likely it's highly dependent on where that code is, your exact manager chain, etc. It could just as easily be that you picked the week a new manager started or a new process was put in place that turned out to be terrible and was so rolled back. Absolutely. There are many good and valid reasons. The net result though is the same in terms of the impact to GP's personal productivity. People tolerate bureaucracy to different degrees, and it's a personal balance for everyone.