alt Hacker News> Realistically your team inevitably will have some downtime
What? My team wouldn't have any downtime even if we had 10x the amount of people.
If you work at a company where you have times where you don't have work to do, you should polish your resume because it means the company will go under.
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sigseg1v • yesterday at 4:57 AM
Agreed here as well. If you gave me 10 devs for 3 years and zero new incoming requirements the backlog wouldn't even go down by 20%.
stavros • yesterday at 12:22 AM
Agreed, our backlog is insane.
Doing work is easy, not doing work is hard. It's trivial for any engineer to find stuff to do. The trick is doing the right stuff. Most software is bad and clunky, most requirements are wrong, and most of your customers, at best, tolerate your product.
I think most software companies need to be doing less. Deleting code, refining, and making their product genuinely useful as opposed to "able to technically contort to client needs".