Comment by casey2
1 month ago
This just seems like you performed a social engineering attack on your boss to keep someone on the team who was objectively performing poorly but happened to be doing something that is valued in western culture.
In short you replaced one well defined metric with an adhoc one following your bias.
You are a peon. For all you know your local improvement has a negative effect on the whole company. Listen to your boss and let the company fail fast if it has an unfit system.
This is an awfully bad reply. The person described in the essay is basically an L6 and an L5 moving to L6 at AWS. Our L6s don't write code, they build PoCs, work on designs, estimates, and scale through others. They use their experience and knowledge to scale out, and the L5s and L4s do the work.