How to #evaluate the #performance of a #software #developer?
The majority agrees that #ElonMusk is doing it wrong with the rating: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/elon-twitter-how-manage-software-company-mohamed-el-kamhawi
Elon Musk is asking software engineers to print out the #code they wrote during the last 60 days for #review! this comes after reports that he threatened he will fire engineers if they don't develop the new paid verification #program.
The #problem here is that the review is often very superficial and only the amount of lines of code is evaluated. However, many lines of code say nothing about the quality. Clever lazy software developers can thus unnecessarily inflate their code and receive a good rating.
So with this kind of evaluation you fire very bad but also very good developers.
Since Elon prefers more brute #management, he probably doesn't care, because the #average is still what's needed to get the #job done.
But I wonder if there are not better simple #measurement methods to evaluate a software developer? The #method should preferably determine a value that even a non-expert #project #manager can evaluate.
