Comment by Tinderblox on 14/07/2015 at 18:19 UTC

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View submission: Reddit Chief Engineer Bethanye Blount Quits After Less Than Two Months On the Job

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You know this because you saw the source code? You know the workload of a chief engineer of a software company?

Seriously, you've gotten into a brand new job and figured out 'most of the things' within 2 months? All the shortcuts, workarounds, ins-and-outs of everything?

Rocket science is easy for some rocket scientists - or so I've read on some IAMAs here on Reddit, that doesn't mean they are intimately familiar with the particular Enterprise (or custom) software that a particular company uses when they first join it.

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Comment by dontforgetpassword at 14/07/2015 at 18:34 UTC

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To be fair the code is all open source. And as an engineer myself, I could see delivering these promises as totally possible. Hell, anything is possible. But doing it at scale is really really hard.

Comment by pixelfrenzy at 14/07/2015 at 18:31 UTC

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yes, that may be true. But there could also be a simple way to find out as a manager.

Manager:(to her team) Yo guys, our CEO has promised these tools and features before this date.. You think we can do this!

Her Team: lol