9.5% Of Software Engineers Do Virtually No Work.

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[hopelessdecoy]

This just seems like a hit on remote work and "trim the fat" mindset which is becoming popular. I wonder who funded or bought the research.

[sotonin]

The problem is you can't measure engineer productivity. especially for senior devs who are in meetings / pair programming and digging into the hard bugs. A ticket is easily 99% finding where the hell to change one line. The code itself the end result is almost nothing. Did the engineer do nothing? No. But you can't measure it

[offtheball]

Even if you are in meetings understanding requirements, working with stakeholders, building understanding within the business, you may not be the person who writes the code. You may also spend a lot of time exploring possible solutions that don't ever get written, because you ruled that out and saved the business time and money implementing something that won't meet the requirements.

This is so short sighted, and every engineer can immediately see the problem with it. The biggest problem is that writing code is the easy part. I haven't written code (at least any that will see a PR) in a week, and it's been really stressful because of the other stuff I have been spending my time doing. Someone who's raising a bunch of PRs is probably not being productive. It's more likely they're bored.

[minma]

Where can I subscribe to become a ghost software engineer?

[vibovitold]

Measuring productivity by lines of code makes about as much sense as evaluating football players by counting their number of footsteps during the match.
(By that logic, the goalkeeper must be borderline useless.)

Just like running distance is not the objective in a football match, and it's not directly proportional to the outcome, churning out a lot - or very little - of code isn't a sensible metric for actual productivity,

Like Bill Gates once said. "measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

The number of useless software engineers may be higher than "9.5%" for all I know, but that's unrelated to the amount of submitted code.

Software development is not a sausage factory.

[Matthew-sxd]

Way higher in gov contracting. Don't need a study. I lived it 23 years. It's all about incentives there

[MrTubeyoucomment]

I just want to leave without writing any comment. <goes invisible >

[suminshizzles]

I know a lot of sys admns do nothing but play games all day. Especially the ones in management or the ones who are solely in charge of systens, like those in small schools. They sit there and play wow till a problem comes up.

[rightq]

Where’s the course link take my minimum wage income money I’d like to be one of those please

[nceryu]

I'm gonna be honest, haven't watched the video you mentioned about how that research was done. With that being said, I completely agree with you, but I also don't understand why this thing has become so popular lately. I'm in engineering since 2021 and I've heard about this right from the start, that in big companies, there are people who get away with not doing anything. So idk, for me these news are 4 years late really

[putnam]

I don't think multiple jobs is illegal as long as you don't break any conditions in your different contacts. Oh and pay taxes

[calholli]

Why am I just now realizing at 42, that I should have been a software engineer?
I like this stuff