thrwwyngnr

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by thrwwyngnr 8y ago
> What the engineers believe management thinks is relevant. Your last sentence seems to prove a point here. Yep, you have a point. And you're absolutely right: I shouldn't have even considered that suggestion, even though I&#x2
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by thrwwyngnr 8y ago
I completely agree with your first point. We don't really have reports of people shouting with each other outside of engineering, and that's why people don't really know what to about that. > Can you be a bit more specific
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by thrwwyngnr 8y ago
> What management should have done (or needs to do ASAP) was to start trimming poor performing engineers. Oh, we did that in 2017. The engineers are hard workers and good coders. Thing is, there aren't really individual performance
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by thrwwyngnr 8y ago
> Employees will deal with not liking everybody. Money and calm managers will do the trick. Woah. That's the money quote for me. Now that you mention it, we haven't had calm managers in engineering in a while. The recent manage
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by thrwwyngnr 8y ago
We do. We promote and fire based on both performance and cultural evaluations. Engineering had some firings in 2017, and we were supposedly left with the best ones. Problem is, things took a 180 curve somewhere, and it became rough in 2018.
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by thrwwyngnr 8y ago
Oh, they're well aware of all that. Also, the CEO knows I'm looking for solutions.
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by thrwwyngnr 8y ago
> Take one of the offenders and publicly shit can him. I don't think this will happen because engineers are scarce, and everyone is to blame, kind of. One of the worst offenders (who sent extremely aggressive e-mails to another team
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by thrwwyngnr 8y ago
> If engineering is acting like a disorganized, isolated group in the company, it's often (in my experience) because management has created structures that keep them feeling isolated and without a sense of ownership/belonging.
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by thrwwyngnr 8y ago
> One way to make it work is to fire everyone and start from scratch. OP here. Now that you mention it, one of the engineers said to me a while ago that the whole team was afraid of that happening during the whole year. In fact, that mig
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