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A simple water heater is more clever than it seems in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I love technology connection videos. He overexplains the minutiae of everything he covers and I love it.

what do you folks discuss in your weekly/monthly 1:1 with your engineering managers? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After shooting the shit for the customary 5 min, it's usually

  • Talking about efforts to mentor junior devs on the team. How they're doing, etc
  • Catching my manager up on convos and meetings they missed recently
  • Them explaining some new system or codebase I haven't worked with yet
  • some sort of HR thing (Raises, PTO, performance reviews, etc)
Leaked Microsoft documents detail an employee performance review system where managers are quietly asked to adjust workers' results to limit the highest ratings in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed, all the employees hate it

Leaked Microsoft documents detail an employee performance review system where managers are quietly asked to adjust workers' results to limit the highest ratings in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is absolutely a thing they do at the tech company I work at too. There's hard limits on how many people can be rated anything 4 stars and up. Managers have to go to "calibration meetings" where they argue, in front of HR, with other managers about why their employee deserves one of the spots in the 4 (or more) stars club.