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Egoless Engineering
It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.
I’ve spent many nights pondering the mistakes these places have made, and I’d like to inflict my observations on you now.# One big thing that a lot of people love to do is create new role types. We’re going to focus on building new products and only hire new engineers for that.# Those are inputs to a very simple equation.Engineers produce work that needs to be analyzed at a rate, and the analysis takes a finite amount of time. Like I said at the beginning of this talk, I’m motivated to make things better, not just complain.I’ve spent a long time thinking about how the most functional engineering team I ever worked on got that way, and I want to give you a vignette from those times.#
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