[geoduck14]

If getting a promotion really is as easy as committing lots of lines of code, and you are THE ONLY one to figure it out, then you deserve a promotion

[MattGaiser]

Not only that, but other engineers apparently pointed out the gaming and management didn’t care.

[908B64B197]

I think they were just reorganized when it happened? Or the company had been acquired. Anyways, it became the new way to evaluate devs not long after he joined.