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Posts tagged #burnout

  1. Experience

    AI tool generated our new component library. Then the accessibility audit came back with 143 issues

    회사 이름은 말 못 하지만... big portal company, React + TS. We had a deadline (always deadline) for new design system components. Management bought an AI tool that generates components from Figma, and the team was told: use it, ship faster. We shipped faster. 진짜 빨랐어요. 3 weeks instead of 8. Then the accessibility audit. 143 issues on the first 12 components. Some examples: Buttons were divs. <div onClick={...}> with no role,…

    박지우17likes9comments

  3. Experience

    what the layoff did to my sleep (and the 5 things that are slowly fixing it)

    nobody talks about this part so i will. first three weeks after the layoff: 3 to 4 hours a night. i'd wake up at 4 am and check email for recruiter replies. then linkedin. "excited to announce" posts from people i used to work with. then email again. heart racing every time my phone buzzed, even when it was my mother sending a good morning forward. 4 am, most nights in september. not my laptop. same glow. i'm not…

    Sneha Kulkarni20likes10comments

  4. Article

    Performance review season: how calibration actually works (from the manager side)

    Review season starts at my company in two weeks, and every year I get the same questions from engineers: what actually happens in calibration? Who decides? Can I do anything about it? Here's an honest answer, based on the companies I've worked at. Details vary, but the shape is similar almost everywhere. What calibration is Managers write ratings for their reports. Then a group of managers sits in a room with a…

    Renee Whitfield21likes8comments

  5. Experience

    Mein Kleingarten hat kein WLAN, und das ist der beste Teil

    Seit zwei Jahren haben wir einen Kleingarten in Pankow, 300 Quadratmeter, eine Laube, die älter ist als ich, und einen Vorstand, der die Heckenhöhe mit dem Zollstock misst. Ja, wirklich. Wer in Berlin wohnt, weiß Bescheid. Am Anfang wollte ich, ganz typisch Entwicklerin, alles digitalisieren. Bodenfeuchtesensor mit ESP32, ein Dashboard für die Tomaten, LoRa bis zur Wohnung. Ich hatte die Teile schon bestellt. Dann…

    Frieda Sommer6likes8comments

  6. Article

    I maintain something you depend on. I am done pretending that is sustainable.

    skerry is a small C library that parses JSON. it is maybe four thousand lines. it is also, as far as I can tell from the download numbers and the angry emails, inside a lot of things you use: routers, a payment terminal, at least two cars, and the backend of companies whose quarterly profit is larger than the GDP of the town I live in. I have maintained it for fourteen years. I have two co-maintainers who help when…

    Karl Lindqvist102likes22comments

  7. Article

    our startup tried a 4 day week for 3 months. here are the numbers, not the vibes

    we're a 9 person logistics startup in sapporo (6 engineers). in may our ceo agreed to a 3 month trial of a 4 day week: same pay, fridays off, 32 hours. everyone on mastodon has opinions about this, so i challenged to collect actual numbers. here they are. small team, one trial, not a study. but numbers. the setup mon-thu, 9:00 to 18:00 with an hour lunch. fridays off for everyone, not rotating one person on call on…

    Mio Kobayashi20likes13comments

  8. Experience

    출근 전에 울었다. I cried before work, then shipped the launch

    오늘은 그냥 솔직하게 쓰고 싶어요. I want to write honestly today. Sorry for mixed language... Last week was launch week for big redesign at my company. Six weeks of crunch before. Every day office until 10 or 11 pm, Saturday also, sometimes Sunday "only for few hours". 야근, 주말 출근. Everyone does it, so nobody talks about it. On launch day morning, I sat on my bed with my bag and shoes on. And I could not stand up. Not sick. Just...…

    박지우9likes8comments

  9. Article

    The school concert was at 3 pm on a Tuesday. Here is the calendar block I now use, and why I stopped apologising for it

    My daughter is seven. Last month her school had its annual day concert at 3 pm on a Tuesday, which, if you are a working parent in India, you will recognise as a time chosen by someone who has never had a 3 pm sprint review. For years, my move in this situation was to sneak out. Leave my status green, keep Slack open on my phone in the auditorium, answer one message during the song my daughter had practised for…

    Divya Ramanathan18likes13comments

  12. Experience

    11 years in and still no degree. some honest notes

    this is not a joke post. i do one of these about once a year and then immediately post something stupid so nobody has to look me in the eye i dont have a degree. i dropped out of community college in 2013 because i was working nights at a warehouse and something had to go. i learned javascript from free tutorials on a laptop with a broken hinge that i propped up with a hardcover book i never read. i got my first dev…

    Sam Whitaker68likes16comments

  13. Article

    Burnout isn't a resilience problem. Here's what I check as a manager.

    Every time burnout comes up, someone recommends a meditation app. I have nothing against meditation. But in my experience, most burnout on engineering teams is caused by how the work is set up, and that's the manager's job, not the engineer's. There's decades of research on this. Christina Maslach's six areas of worklife (workload, control, reward, community, fairness, values) are a good starting point if you want…

    Renee Whitfield8likes6comments

  14. Experience

    Typhoon week at the fab: the city stops, the fab does not

    We had our first strong typhoon of the season last week. Some colleagues abroad asked me "do you get the day off?" and the answer is complicated, so I want to write about it from the inside. I cannot say anything about my company, the tools, the yields or the customers, so please do not ask. I will only write about the people. How a typhoon day works here When a typhoon is coming, each city and county government…

    C.M. Huang 黃志明30likes12comments

  16. Article

    I burned out as a manager and nobody noticed. Including me.

    Last fall I took six weeks of medical leave. Officially it was "a health matter". Unofficially, I had been running on fumes for most of a year and my body finally made a decision my calendar wouldn't. I'm writing this because when I came back, three people on other teams quietly asked me how I knew. The honest answer is that I didn't, not until very late. So here are the signs I missed, in the hope that you catch…

    Renee Whitfield18likes10comments

  17. Experience

    Eleven months retired and I still wake up at 3:12 am

    For thirty-four years I carried some form of pager. First an actual pager, a Motorola thing on my belt that went off in the middle of my sister's wedding speeches in 1997 (a Novell server, naturally). Then a Nokia, then a BlackBerry, then whatever the company issued and the on-call app that screamed like a smoke alarm. I retired eleven months ago and I want to write down a few things nobody told me, because some of…

    Graham Whitfield5likes7comments

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