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by mhss 4y ago
I think is true the org can hint at you the company culture, but an IC to manager ratio of 5:1 is just too many managers IMHO, and without really knowing the manager's responsibilities and quality, the ratio won't tell you much in
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by mhss 4y ago
I think 'good enough' is just an expression to mean it doesn't need to be perfect or very elaborate. Unfortunately the term scrum these days is far from precise and does not guarantee it'll be lightweight, but the princi
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by mhss 4y ago
I'm sorry if I'm splitting hairs a bit here, but I'd argue 'good enough' process is all you need even with average teams. Keep them focused, limit their in flight work, unblock them, iterations with feedback, etc; I
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by mhss 4y ago
What things would you look at? Manager to IC ratio is one thing, what else? Also, what is a good manager to IC ratio for you?
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by mhss 4y ago
I always look at it from these core 3 attributes: - Work (interesting, career progression, etc). - People (Good coworkers, aligned values, top-down vs bottom-up, etc). - Compensation/Benefits (Many things to look at but I favor base an
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by mhss 4y ago
I Am Mother https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Mother
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by mhss 4y ago
It's almost as if the process was not the most (not even close) important thing to ship value consistently.
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by mhss 4y ago
Do you mean not uncommon in your circle? I don’t ser how else you can call common to own two houses, and one of them just for the summer.
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by mhss 4y ago
> Google has tons of information on you Do you have any good sources about this? what do we know for sure Google know and track about us? I work for Google now, but speak for myself here. In my time here (not much, less than a year still
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by mhss 4y ago
Thanks for the nudge on the guidelines, you're right. You are however redefining the meaning in this conversation or just not really aware that no one here wants that 'mission' to fail, we want Elon's methods to fail bec
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by mhss 4y ago
I guess you can find excuses to defend anyone, including bullies. I mean, most bullies were bullied and abused themselves, so there's that. What's the excuse for the other points raised by the OP though? + a bunch of other stuff s
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by mhss 4y ago
Now you are redefining what failure looks like. I'd bet most people that don't want 'Elon the bully' to succeed are talking about their businesses failing (e.g Twitter going down). If you're somehow claiming Musk&#x
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by mhss 4y ago
I never had heard this analogy before and understood it immediately. If it didn’t click with you that’s fine, that doesn’t mean is not useful.
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Analogies always fall apart somewhere under scrutiny. This one is still useful though to compare. Vitamins are successful because there’s a lot of awareness and marketing (sometimes deceitful) about the benefits of vitamins. If you’re going
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by mhss 4y ago
Thanks for the reminder. I was a subscriber for a few years and then I stopped when I hit a long time crunch with no time to read much news. I just subscribed now that I feel I have some leisure time again for this and HN in general.
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by mhss 4y ago
> the best managers are the ones who never wanted to be a manager There's some truth to it. In the sense that I think best managers are not seeking power or "being a leader" for the sake of it. However, there are also a lo
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by mhss 4y ago
> One way to mask that incompetence and lack of domain level knowledge, in my experience is to come by the workers and look over their shoulders and ask questions. Nothing wrong with asking questions. I'll take a manager that asks q
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by mhss 4y ago
> "Realistically, there are probably a bunch of people at the company who shouldn't be here" Well, If that’s the case, whose fault is it? you hired them and you have been keeping them. This kind of passive-aggressive layof
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by mhss 4y ago
> As they say, the reward for being good at your job is more work. Expecting me to put in top effort for "the users" without compensating me doesn't work. You do not work for free. You are being paid. 'Top effort&#x27
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by mhss 5y ago
I truly do not understand this attitude and I can only guess comes from repeated exposure to an unfriendly environment. We're not talking here about exposing your soul to the world, a few words to explain why you want the smaller box w
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by mhss 5y ago
You can always explain in a few words why, even without stating your actual underlying reasons. The clerk doesn't need all the details. This person clearly struggled more than he had to if he would have just provided a reason the clerk