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by nine_zeros 1021 days ago
Oh it exists. Lines of code, number of commits, number of documents and other such BS uncorrelated with actual work.

Imagine how poor management must be to think more lines of code == more revenue.
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wilde 1021 days ago
They are correlated until you admit to using them in the performance process. Then they’re far too easy to game and become useless. What we haven’t found is an adversary-resistant measure of productivity.
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nine_zeros 1020 days ago
They are absolutely not correlated. Engineers often spend some quarters investigating and fixing scaling issues. This work does not need to a high number of locs.

If your work is merely adding some feature factory or bug fixes, maybe there is a correlation.

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