I'm also really intrigued by the "karma" rating for all of their developers.
Can anyone speak to how well that is working? Has it been effective? Any negative side-effects? Is it just for the release process, or for any development effort?
Can anyone speak to how well that is working? Has it been effective? Any negative side-effects? Is it just for the release process, or for any development effort?
It isn't a complex rating system - there are probably 97% of people at the base karma level, maybe 0.1% at one rung higher, 2.7% at one rung lower, and 0.2% at lower than that. The "Push" tech talk at https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10100259101684977 has more on it.
Mostly it is a way of letting you know that you made people's lives difficult by holding up the push process by not being available to support your changes. You know that you won't get away with that, that you need to make up for it, and you also know when you've made up for it.
(It also doesn't apply to a decent number of engineers, since they work on services and infrastructure that are not part of that process.)