Comment by ryandrake
2 years ago
A little off topic, but I love how you mention his career progression before sharing the example of his ignorance, because this seems to be a pretty common theme in tech companies (I've witnessed it more times than I can remember or count). The people I knew in my career who were most full of shit are pretty much all now Directors and VPs, enjoying a life of success, and the ones who were the most actually knowledgable are still grinding away as IC's, worried about layoffs. This industry is really bad about rewarding competence.
> This industry is really bad about rewarding competence.
If you promote the competent people, you leave the incompetent ones to do the actual work.
The trick then is not hiring bozos in the first place.
The team I described in GGGP were all strong in the roles they were originally hired for. The company likes to promote internally, which mostly works out for them. This shit team was an edge case.
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