[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.

[thr_ddv]

The budget I have for hiring is tiny and no one on the board believes 10x engineers exist. The choise is between not shipping anything at all or having to deal with said talentless hacks who happen to know more than me about tool X but otherwise slow development to a crawl.

Turns out reading HN comments is not a good way to run a company. Who would have thought?