Non- managers are more corrupt than a managers in following ways. Which is the most frequent cause of corruption ?
1. Over estimating the efforts 2. Office gossips 3. Moon lighting 4. Unrealistic Salary demands 5. Completely under-utilised but still complaining of overwork.
If consider you giving a deadline and an employee always comes with extended timeline and you come to know that he is too busy doing job of others and taking salary from you. Moonlight is not corruption until done out of office hours and not sharing corporate resource but doing on corporate resource it’s unethical.
Similarly, unrealistic salary demands is there cause of lot of layoffs now. People during Covid demanded unrealistic salary which they are facing the heat now and this is impacting others also who are not in that category. Of course this is an overall corporate strategy failure also
Managers are the scum of the corporate world, undoubtedly.
1. Overpromising unrealistic timelines for the team
2. Lead office politics and manipulation
3. Overhiring for self-esteem then firing
4. Experts at underpaying and not promoting
5. Take all credit while making absolutely no contributions to the project but complaining about issues and timelines
Wizard
Stealth
a year ago
Point 1: Estimating is quite difficult for large scale systems, several experienced engineering leaders have writting about vons of scrum, estimates using poker etc. + These depend on manager too. My manager always asks me to add certain buffer, people hate missing deadlines.
It's better to under-promise and over-deliver
2. It's a cultural thing, your HR should spend time solving this but regardless it's human nature for most
3. If paid fairly, it's wrong. If paid 20-25k like shitty salary, it's justified. Working hard for your family and expenses >> corporate values.
My moral compass is complex, won't elaborate more on this
4. Again HR should bring transperancy and salary levels like Netflix or else F**k off. If a person knows what SDE1, SDE2 etc. are paid they will make the choice of joining with that knowledge and can't crib about it afterwards or demand more
5. Wow, you can calculate utilisation of Software Engineers, Tell me more because recently McKinsey was bashed by Engineering Leaders for coming up with shitty framework like code effort etc. For measuring dev productivity.
None of the points you put are objective, maybe 2nd one but read more about cultural and engineering. Also touch grass
This is ofcourse not data driven points. However, this is an observation and feedback from different people. Developers are taking advantages of many things during project and are doing a corruption by not following the timeline and highlighting risk on time .
