alt Hacker NewsI'm not sure I agree wit this, if I have work that needs to be done, and have a vague idea how long it should take
The engineer that consistently quotes 3x my expectation (and ends up taking 4x with bugs) is going to look way worse than the engineer that ships things quickly with no drama.
It's rare to have two engineers working separately but on exactly the same problem so their results can be directly compared.