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by JOnAgain 518 days ago
Can’t get promoted pumping out 10 great pages. But a library that you can claim will enhance the productivity of 100 other engineers? Now that’s IMPACT!!

Except you’re at a company where everyone has figured this out so now you have 4 competing libraries with their own teams which are all 1/2 done making every engineer less productive cause they all have bugs and slightly different priorities.

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this is exactly the frontend team from a previous role. we were losing millions a month and had 2 major cuts within 4 months - and instead of cleaning up or simplifying our bloated frontend, the teams responsible for it started building new component libraries for the rest of the org to use on future pages
4 competing in-house libs? How can that ever happen? Is middle management non-existant? That is anarchy, hehe