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Org Debt

by kimjune01 on 7/30/23, 12:30 AM with 3 comments

• by ConradKilroy on 7/30/23, 12:40 AM

  2 points of brilliant insight:

  -"Instead of code and interfaces, we have processes and expectations. (By hiring career engineering managers, industry norms are imported. Firing a low performer may be a quick solution to a bigger underlying problem, deferred for the next manager.")

  -This year, Meta laid off all their engineering managers that don’t code. It’s the same move that Google pulled 20 years ago, spawning Maps, Chrome and Gmail.

• by kimjune01 on 7/30/23, 12:30 AM

  I've been noticing the similarities between how an organization is configured and a codebase. Upon reflecting why organizational change is hard, I made a comparison between the two and suggest an alternative.