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Is definitely frustrating as a software developer. The amount of time that I've spent preparing to be graded and then subsequently graded amounts to maybe a fifth of my waking life. Then a couple of years ago I knocked out some software projects and got a job purely based on them... What a waste of life.

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If it's any consolation at any sufficiently large company you'll be graded again based on arbitrary metrics b/c your manager (and their managers) have no idea what your actual impact is.

The modern incarnation of school is, after all, supposed to make you into a good employee.

Had a manager tell me I needed to be more like another engineer who had more commits. I checked out his commits and it was full of repairing typos in READMEs, capitalizing SQL queries, removing comments from code.

I didn’t work for that manager much longer

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