what to look for in a team to maximize happiness
at facebook we can see how many lines of code and tasks each member of a team completed per review cycle. given facebooks notoriously bad work life balance, to maximize your happiness, would you choose a team with low line count and less tasks completed per cycle, sociable and friendly team members, or good team or product mission?
I can also write brute force solutions with “more lines”. The only time more lines matters is when you’re doing cocaine
Ok diff count works too
Look for average age of engineers (especially ones around your level and manager). Older the better.
Happiness at work is about how well you fit your role vis a vis your expectations.
I dont get why people think more code is better productivity. I spend more time to write less code to accomplish the same thing.
I like this perspective from LinkedIn. Quality over quantity.
Ok I meant less tasks completed per team member as well
Happiness for me comes from knowing that I'm good at my job with reasonable responsibility combined with appreciation for my work.
Check out Google's"project Aristotle". It has the five most important factors of a long-term, productive team. #1 is tenure, but because of Google's interest in "shooting stars" - people who change team every year or two for their career - they ignored that, and looked at the other big factors; psychological safety, dependability, structure, meaning and impact. Make up your own questions that assess these when picking a new team. Find out how many people have left the team in the last year, what the feedback culture is like, how they do planning meetings. Is the roadmap written for them and their customers (good) or their boss (bad) ? What have they shipped this year ? Are people proud ?
These numbers do very little to affect PSC. This was discussed multiple times on various workplace groups. You can mostly ignore them.
Line count has nothing to do with productivity or effort.
Well u can see the whole team’s line count. If most members of a team have higher tasks completed and higher line count, than another team then I’m inclined to believe the first team is less chill.
Or they all play code golf. In which case you're boned