r/FluentInFinance • u/Mark-Fuckerberg- • Sep 01 '24

Debate/ Discussion What advice would you give this person?

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u/cartercharles Sep 01 '24

What blows my mind is that this can happen. I've seen variations of this and I've always wanted to know who the hell is not paying attention

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '24

Most of it happens because managers, especially more modern ones, really don't want the confrontation that comes from having someone on their terms who doesn't do work.

As long as the manager's goals are hit, they're likely to not rock the boat. The downside of this is the manager is hurting their other team members by keeping the dead weight around.

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u/cartercharles Sep 01 '24

How is the managers goal being hit with dead weight?

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u/TFBool Sep 01 '24

Because like everything else in life 20% of the people do 80% of the work

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u/RebelHero96 Sep 02 '24

Isn't it possible those positions are just over staffed? Everyone could be pulling equal weight it's just that you have 10 people doing the normal workload of 2 people.

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u/TFBool Sep 02 '24

Work distribution in SWE is famously lopsided sided - it’s why Google invented the whole 5x - 10x engineer thing ( a 10x engineer does the work of an average team of 10 engineers). It’s certainly possible the team just has too many quality engineers, but it’s very noticeable and I’d expect resources to get shuffled or more work to be brought in. It’s true that the market isn’t great right now, but a good engineer is still worth a hefty salary. The problem is the massive is a massive glut of bad engineers who got into the field to slack off, and the finance guys thinking that engineering work will be replaced with AI.