Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry
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Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry
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#2Slow edit refresh.
When is say slow, I mean over 100 seconds.
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#3Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry:
#1 Hacker News
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#4Kind of reads like leadership that wants to squeeze work out of people. At least some of your talent is going to need to think deeply to build actual systems, at some point, otherwise you’re just selling duct-taped together garbage. You CAN sell duct-taped together garbage, companies do it all the time— it’s not very interesting to work on though, hence your “unmotivated, lazy” engineers.
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#5I really hate every article from this site when they get posted. The advice is never really useful, and the authors strike me as the worst kind of micromanaging, ineffective leader to work under.
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#6Kind of reads like leadership that wants to squeeze work out of people. At least some of your talent is going to need to think deeply to build actual systems, at some point, otherwise you’re just selling duct-taped together garbage. You CAN sell duct-taped together garbage, companies do it all the time— it’s not very interesting to work on though, hence your “unmotivated, lazy” engineers.
without trying to draw the line between designed systems and duct tape, this question of whether or not the organization is functional is far more important to me as a motivating factor than these other things. Do I fell like the quality bar is high enough that people will demand that I write adequate tests, or will they just wonder why I'm taking so much time. Does my work dovetail with other people's? Are they depending on me? Is this useful structure or just some ill-conceived minor feature request that I know is going to cause trouble later.
Does anyone actually care about what I'm doing, or are we just running out the clock.
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#7Another one: "We're moving our stack to ."
or one that I lived through: "We're switching from SQL Server to Oracle." That one burned a few years that could have been spent on new features or improvements.
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#8I really hate every article from this site when they get posted. The advice is never really useful, and the authors strike me as the worst kind of micromanaging, ineffective leader to work under.
Most of the work of a manager is not coordinating the work of subordinates but instead justifying the necessity of employing managers.
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#9(everything is working with no effort)
No one:
IT infra: let’s move our repo platform to SaaS!
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