The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
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The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
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Re: The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
#2> Having half of the company’s engineers enmeshed in an endless loop of proposing changes and being told no was totally fine - they didn’t need to be productive anyway, and this way they weren’t impacting business-critical systems.
Well, it's a take. This is pretty cynical.
Re: The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
#3Doesnt seem very testable of a hypothesis. As a company thats trying to get things done, doesnt it make sense to have someone help you prioritize by telling you when some decisions have long term costs?
Re: The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
#4Making up a guy to get mad at.
Re: The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
#5This is trivially incorrect outside of SV.
There are plenty of slow moving projects that focus on the stability of the codebase if you work for a business that isn't a "tech company" and work on services instead of products.
Re: The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
#6Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48245331
Re: The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
#7Making up a guy to get mad at.
...the article seems quite supportive and appreciative of this guy?
Re: The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
#8Beautiful write-up, thank you.
One aspect that still bothers me is that you claim the just-say-no-engineer "was a critical role during ZIRP." I might be in the minority here, but I don't hold that same stance. I wonder if I am alone in that?
Re: The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
#9> desperately chasing new capabilities and features that can make money
Ah yes. And.. where are those?
Re: The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon
#10I agree with this take for experienced and capable engineering teams. Three times over the last three years, I have told my senior engineers to skip code review, and nothing catastrophic happened, and recovery from bugs was rapid. Three times I have been told by engineering management to reimplement code review. Now that management is either gone or about to be gone.