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Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
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Re: Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t disagree. however, I also think lots of people just don’t know how to negotiate. lots of people is complacent with “company policy, we do X% raise per year and no more” - however, if you go to your boss and say “hey, my performance is not up to par with my fair market value etc…” I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised what managers can pull with the HR. and if they can’t, that is unlikely a place you should s…
First, statistics back me up. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrobinson/2024/11/05/64-of-... Let’s talk about the raises I have gotten from job hopping since 2014. I have been working a lot longer. But if the company could pay me more and thought I was worth more, then why didn’t they offer me that in the first place? 2012 I was working for a then F10 company (GE) after two years of across the board 3% raises, I lef…
I think the way your career fantastically progressed is majority of people - 100%. my career has been the exact opposite of yours :) 17 years at same place then independent contractor last 9. at a place I stayed 17 years my ending compensation was 4.7 times my initial compensation (which was not small, I got my Master’s during dotcom boom). when I left to go solo route I was offered close-to-6-figure bump in salary to stay…
Re: Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the OP's point is that "crushing the tickets" should not be your first priority. That does not mean you should not be closing JIRA tickets, but it does mean that the number of tickets closed should not be your #1 metric. In other words: if you have a choice of closing 10 easy tickets or 1 hard ticket this week, what should you choose? It's a trick question! You should be choosing whatever is most important fo…
Two caveats for less-experienced engineers (whether by senority at a company or years in the industry): * As a manager, I would prefer you to crush those ten easy tickets if you aren't up to the task of the hard ticket. If that hard-for-you ticket is easy for someone with more skill, and we're in a high profile incident, I am going to steer you away from it. * As a manager, if you show me you can crush the easy ticke…
I made this thread's root comment: this is exactly how I was managed, including the "can prove this within 1-3 months" timeline.
Glad to see there are other good managers out there. It's a bit horrifying seeing the pessimism in these sorts of threads. Would strongly encourage folks in low-autonomy teams to seek other opportunities.
Re: Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
#84"continuing to work on an already-shipped project is a very common mistake. Declare victory and walk away!" Maybe that's why we swim in the sea of barely done apps with terrible performance. It's time to demand quality of the app vendors. Uninstall facebook until it starts in 2s and works flawlessly. Use ublock until the ads stop slowing down a site. Uninstall any messaging app that cannot show you paginated history…
So much low-hanging fruit is glossed over because the feature is not deemed glorious enough to invest in. It takes invested teams to care about polish; almost impossible with the engineered churn at FAANG.
Re: Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
#85This is cynical and accurate, and may crush your soul if you're not careful. Just don't get too caught up in mistakenly confusing "urgent" and "important" as this blog post (and many executives) seem to do. If you want to actually deliver value then that'll mean doing some amount of thankless and un-asked for work because nobody has noticed that if X/Y/Z isn't addressed/fixed/maintained then a major part/all of the c…
> If you can't independently and proactively take action to improve things for your customers without gaining some "minimum amount of glory", you are working in a dysfunctional organization. I recommend not working there. Or I recommend cynically gaming the system. All large companies are dysfunctional. If you want to maximize your compensation, you play the game. The top end of enterprise dev is around the entry lev…
I would too, but I'd point out that what you are doing is playing the game, not actually delivering value. My annoyance is with the parent blog post which seems to imply that delivering value == sycophantic behavior, which just isn't true.
Re: Crushing Jira tickets is a party trick, not a path to impact
#86Another way to frame this is to not get too attached to your code. Tmrw it could be the cornerstone to a new line of business or it can be burned in the dumpster.
And this is one reason this industry can be so soul crushing. You're asked to demonstrate "ownership", but at any moment some person above you can take all your work away and make you do something entirely different. Somehow we're asked to care about our work and not care about it at the same time.
That's the nature of the job, we're not growing food to feed people. We tinker with with code in the hope that it helps someone else and sometimes it doesn't.