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by mnsc 1583 days ago
> Ambitious people like achieving goals.

Like coming in, making the biggest impact they can eg. do a large spectacular redesign, leave for 10% pay jump immediately and never sticking around for that maintenance nightmare that were hidden in the details?

Incentives will always be a tradeoff because you can't measure skill.

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> Incentives will always be a tradeoff because you can't measure skill.

Oh, so because it is hard let's just stop trying?

You can't measure skill accurately. But you can try to find correlations and you can measure other things that are as much or even more important like... erm... results?