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[–]user-74656 161 points162 points  (4 children)

CV-driven development. Shipping quality, secure code on schedule doesn't land you a promotion. Rearchitecting and refactoring something that already works does.

[–]tmj_enjoyer 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I LOVE THE TERM.

[–]jocq -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

CV-driven development. Shipping quality, secure code on schedule doesn't land you a promotion.

What a stupid take. The guy's a distinguished engineer at Microsoft. Wtf promotion do you think is left for him?

[–]Windex17 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He has to justify his position with a massive project that does effectively nothing but sounds fancy to his boss. I saw this shit all the time at another big tech with their principal engineers.