An empirical study of working speed differences between software engineers [pdf]

Post by ForHackernews » Sun, Jul 17, 2016, 4:26 PM UTC

sctb wrote: post #70

ForHackernews wrote: post #49

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A "dead" (or shadowbanned?) user replied to you: I think he means: The Google culture is built around cerebral competition. The drive to dominate ones peers, possessed by many technical types, is used to create a fiercely competitive atmosphere. This competition is used to drive productivity. The trouble with this is that it is difficult to measure code quality but easy to measure how quickly the code is produced. Th…

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Post by ForHackernews » Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 7:45 AM UTC

sctb wrote: post #72

ForHackernews wrote: post #71

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