Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Two Developers and Performance Review

Yesterday, two developers (no names) from a large company, which I don’t work for anymore, complained to me about their performance review process.

Both are my friends and both work in the same team under the same manager. One had a new component that he had to rewrite three times. Naturally, testers, PM and he himself filed tons of bugs to track this work. Other developer had reasonably stable component, so he had very few bugs.

Developer #1 was told that while he fixed all the bugs, he simply had too high bug count, and having so many bugs is simply not acceptable!

Developer #2 was told that while he had very few bugs, he also fixed very few bugs, and such low fix rate is simply not acceptable!

Ah-h-h!... Priceless.

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