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[โ€“] docAvid@midwest.social 36 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or gets promoted, and keeps moving on to new and bigger projects, leaving a trail of destruction, because all management sees is they close tickets faster than the people who are busy picking up the pieces behind them.

[โ€“] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 8 points 7 months ago

In addition, the company doesn't invest in growing and retaining the rest of the development team for 20 years until said developer is near retirement, then finds that they need to hire 10 developers because 2 need to replace said person and 8 need to redo everything they did.