Good company, but performance is broken
Good company, but performance is broken
Good benefits, strong engineering culture.
Performance is broken. The emphasis on producing design docs, rather than actual code, is misplaced, and it means most developers and their managers are mostly gaming the system.
Stop asking me about design docs. You're just contributing to the problem. Developers are getting promoted for the wrong reasons, and you're producing bad software as a result.
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