Employee benefit policies - shitty lows
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PoorCoders
Rapido11mo
In one of my friend ex-company manager was tired of bugs and system going down very often. So instead of focusing on code quality, unit test, automating flows. He decided he would maintain sheet based on number of bugs fixed for devs and for QA's it would be number of bugs found.
Whichever team would fix highest number bugs would get extra bonus or something. Similarly for QA.
Guess what one team figured out how to beat the system. They dev and qa teams teamed up. tons of bugs were written and only to be found by QA and quickly squashed by Dev's.
Plan backfired. Client was paying for all the extra hours spent on fixing this. I don't remember of the bonuses were paid.
potatomato
Fintech Startup11mo
Lol, reminds me of a tech company where the new bossman fired people who had written the least amount of code!
PoorCoders
Rapido11mo
Might as well write sorting algorithm on my own to keep the job now.
tbk
Startup11mo
In previous company hr gal wanted devs to login into HRMS portal and mark attendance check in, check out time everyday.
1 hero setup a cron job on staging server to hit the HRMS portal api using admin credentials to mark everyone present at 9 am sharp, needless to say for few months everyone was euphoric đ€Ł Then the leadership realised and decided to treat us as adults, finally no more attendance checks đ
CunningLinguist
Venture Capital11mo
The OGs for this are the ex-employers of our grand/great-grand parents: British Government in India -> During the time of colonial India, the government became concerned that too many deadly cobras roamed the streets of Delhi.  The leaders came up with a clever solution â pay a bounty to any citizen who brought forward a dead cobra.  The âcash for snakesâ program worked like a charm for a while, and the streets became clear of these poisonous reptiles.
But then a shift happened.  The payouts began to increase at a staggering pace.  When British officials investigated, they discovered an unexpected consequence.  Entrepreneurs started breeding cobras in mass numbers, so they could be killed and delivered to the Government for a handsome reward.  Outraged and refusing to be taken advantage of, the British officials immediately canceled the program.  At that point, the market for dead cobras dried up completely for budding snake startups, so the entrepreneurs cut their losses by releasing the snakes into the streets of Delhi, making the original problem of wild cobras far worse.  The government wasted tons of cash, only to end up with a much bigger problem.
meets_expectations
Morgan Stanley11mo
My manager in previous company wanted to measure productivity by counting commits made to master repo without taking into account "impact" of the said commits... Need I say more đ
PoorCoders
Rapido11mo
Non tech manager?
meets_expectations
Morgan Stanley11mo
No, he's just an idiot.
spymig
Fintech Startup11mo
Not exactly a policy but CEO tried building a culture-led org, turned out to be more expensive than a targets-led org
PoorCoders
Rapido11mo
Spill some beans buddy. What happened?
