Engineering Metrics Are Bullshit – Change My Mind
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johnnyfived
4 months ago
It's absolutely true that engineering hiring managers generally are looking for that type of metrics (what impact, %, $ did your work do) while doing probably very minimal efforts of setting up their infrastructure and team workflows to allow such tracking.
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