The moral of this story about a developer who helped the team by pair programming and coaching junior engineers at the expense of his own individual metrics is “you shouldn’t judge a fish by how well it climbs a tree.”
Unfortunately companies tend to standardize on performance review systems that are easy to measure. So there are often people who add a ton of value who end up penalized by the system.
https://dannorth.net/2023/09/02/the-worst-programmer/
Dare Obasanjo /
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2023-09-03 02:34:00
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