Ghost Engineers §

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• Author: Dmitry Kudryavtsev
• Full Title: Ghost Engineers
• Category:#articles
• Summary: A recent tweet claims that 9.5% of engineers are “ghost engineers,” contributing very little while earning high salaries. The research behind this claim, attributed to Stanford, lacks peer review and relies on questionable methodology, as it includes mostly non-engineers in its expert panel. Critics argue that true productivity in software engineering is not measured by code quantity but by the impact of contributions, which are often overlooked in such analyses.
• URL: https://yieldcode.blog/post/ghost-engineers/

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• When I talk about productivity, I, and people with my levels of knowledge and expertise, know that lines of code do not equal productivity. Sometimes, you have weeks of discussion that lead to few line changes. Consider an example where your contribution is commenting out a feature flag that held a global roll-out of a particular feature to your entire customer base. (View Highlight)

• they would think that React is a name of a spell from Harry Potter. (View Highlight)

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