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damn...
Reminds me of the new hired person here.
He is hired to maintain the infrastructure. Yet from day one, he calls himself "System engineer"...
We all know that he is just a first line tech support :D
He is now working 3 weeks here and has done nothing. He spits out a ton of ideas or stuff that need to change.
When I mention that it is all OK and he can do it, the response is 'yeah but step by step, one thing at a time' ... So far nothing has been done -
How does his inactivity end up going unnoticed? Does the rest of the dev team pick up the slack?
(Not trying to accuse you, it easily happens - as us devs usually never call anyone out, and we just make sure "it gets done" as a team, if anyone is lagging behind)
PS: Great post, especially how you mentionin doing everything in your power to help. (Usually on devRant posts like this will just say a colleague is stupid without concrete mentions of how they tried helping). I can totally see how you feel someone is beyond repair he's been this way for a year.
Normally I would give the advice that you should flat out tell them that you're concerned with their lack of productivity, and that might shake them up and get them going. But in this case I can tell it's beyond that point and even if he improved it's probably not enough to wanna keep him.
Mention your concerns to a manager. -
Stop helping him, reduce your availability. Let him feel the pain of not getting help, maybe then he will actually contribute something. Let him miss deadlines and make yourself busy. Never give him a straight answer, just ask more questions and confuse him.
And to top it off - offer him up to lead some new feature/refactor since hes 6 months in. Chances are he would fail miserably and quit himself. -
@sideshowbob76 in my team of 6 devs, 2 got the job because they lied and 2 others are task monkeys who do only exactly what u tell them and output is almost nonexistent since they are contractors. Sometimes I feel like those 4 could be easily replaced by 1 competent mid level dev. So yeah I feel ya.
Newly hired developer who calls himself ”senior” on linkedin has not contributed for 6 months. At least. I have been very helpful on many pair programming sessions. Directing him. Being extremely precise how things works and are working together. Small and big picture. He calls me and ask questions and I answer. Explain. Again and again. But it does not stick.
Nothing.
Extremely precise tasks. Written specifically for him.
Nothing.
He has like 10 commits in one year. It’s the worst I’ve seen in a developer role.
The other day in a zoom meeting he failed to declare a variable correctly. He copy/pasted a line instead and renamed the variable.
I saw this early. But I need not to work with him for a long time. It is now very clear that he will never contribute but in fact decrease the velocity of the team.
One year is a long time.
He is stupid. He can’t learn. Did he not tell the truth about himself when management hired him?
It so sad they hired him.
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