A company that achieved success due to people having to WFH are now forcing staff back in to the office

  • @[email protected]
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    411 year ago

    I work in tech, at one of the big tech companies (the Rainforest one).

    The dirty little secret of tech is that you don’t need the best engineers. You just need people that are “good enough”, and that bar varies wildly across all of tech. I’ve worked with senior engineers from Google that absolutely crumbled outside of building Python web apps, and recent grads in LCOL areas that are better in all areas.

    Alongside this, many tier 1 services in big tech are propped up by mid-level engineers. Depending on the company and org, you’d be shocked at how little coding some software engineers actually do, because they’re attending WBR’s, building review decks, running all scrum ceremonies, even responsible for multimillion dollar team budgets. Again, many of these people aren’t particularly talented compared to your standard engineer.

    You’re absolutely right, but I doubt any big tech company cares. They want to reduce human cost as much as possible, and if that means letting everyone that knows how shit works go, and hiring new grads to keep your systems alive, so be it.

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s a fucking stupid approach, as do ~90% of IC’s at these companies.

        Someone at Amazon put it nicely when they’ve said that there’s a rise in “belief-driven” leadership in tech right now. Instead of following the data and asking people what they want, we’re seeing tech leaders position themselves as visionaries, and making market-changing decisions on gut feeling. It’s absolutely a series a short-term decisions, and all they care about is what they think, and how it’ll save their skin for the next 3-6 months.

        • @[email protected]
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          61 year ago

          Oh man thank you for that phrase. “belief driven leadership” is exactly what’s happening there right now. Spot on. I’m so close to finding somewhere else to work but my immediate leadership thinks the RTO is bullshit as well. However I know they can’t hold off forever.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        I have never seen an MSP with top-notch engineers. I worked for a fairly nice one and we were pretty average.

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      161 year ago

      Thing is, us “good enough” engineers want to wfh too, and we’re willing to walk because of it

    • SokathHisEyesOpen
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      11 year ago

      That’s very shortsighted though. One great engineer is worth 10 mediocre engineers, especially when you factor in the time required to manage them. But I’ve never built a trillion dollar company before, so I’m probably not qualified to say that my ideas are better.