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by swiftcoder 546 days ago
> Generally this is not tractable because it cannot scale

The real question here is scale in terms of what? Because a lot of folks are out here trying to scale people/careers, not software.

It's extremely noticeable at BigCorps. Why do we need to scale this project from 3 -> 30 -> 300 developers? Because that's the number of reports to promo from Manager I -> Manager II -> Director