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[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 57 points 1 month ago

Management: Gee whiz, we really have no idea how to gauge productivity to decide who gets promoted. We could manage. Or, better, we could just have someone write a script that pulls info from git on how many lines of code each person has written.

Programmers:

[-] curiousaur@reddthat.com 22 points 1 month ago

I promote based on lines of code removed.

[-] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

I quit based on idiotic metrics

[-] curiousaur@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago

Ah, the idiotic idiotic metric metric.

[-] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago
[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I'm sure it was meant as a joke, not a serious criticism.

I think we can all agree that managers who have no idea what's important absolutely suck

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know what the age metric has to do with anything.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 5 points 1 month ago

Which is all the easier to do when you start off with a higher number...

[-] Acters@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Add heavily verbose/redundant math equations that take up multiple lines with each operation saving to a new variable, then either decrease the number of variable declarations or condense/simplify the math occasionally. Repeat with each new function. Killing two metrics at once LOC and the removal of LOC for older functions. Guaranteed promotions. lol

[-] meiti@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I love deleting code, including my own, more than writing code. That's a killer metric imo.

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