[lukebitts]

It's always so funny seeing these kinds of comments from throwaway accounts

[eterm]

Not so funny: someone wrote a tool which attributes throwaways with alarming accuracy.

[swores]

I found the tool submission you're talking about, I remember putting my username into it when it was first shown and it did produce a list of accounts with % probabilities (in my case all unrelated to me), but when I tried doing it again now it says "This user does not have any public activity in the previous three years." for "swores" (and I've multiple comments just this week).

Luckily for the throwaway person above, it says the same for them. But does still show results for some, maybe only big accounts now?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27568709

edit: ahh, I think it just took a one-time snapshot of the three years leading up to its 2021 creation, as my old username that I changed to swores does show up. So it's an interesting proof of concept that someone could do similar analysis, but not an ongoing tool. So it won't be telling us which CTO to avoid :P

[metalforever]

The comment mirrors my experience in the industry over a long period.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

They're not wrong, though.

[thr_ddv]

Because I'd sink the company I'm golden hand cuffed to if I said what I think about the engineers I have to manage. But I do think I'll be bringing in SAP timesheets to share my pain with everyone:

> We need to keep track of the time your spending on your opex KIPs. We can't pay your expected bonus if you don't.

[apsurd]

you're the CTO of a company mostly composed of talentless hack engineers that can't code their way out of a paper bag? You're literally the apex engineering lead; that's so... sad. Do something about it.

[majormajor]

So as cto did you just totally screw up at hiring, or were you brought in later but somehow don't have authority or ability to fix anything??

IME when I've seen a "1/10th engineer" it's almost always been a total management failure.