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A company I have visited had, for some obscure reason, decided that teams should have their own fun/memorable names. Almost 2 years after implementation, every
by xcambar 4y ago
A company I have visited had, for some obscure reason, decided that teams should have their own fun/memorable names. Almost 2 years after implementation, every new hire's first comment was: "it's impossible to navigate the org with those names, we have no idea of what each team is doing".
I could live with funny+descriptive, but for all that is good, funny only just does not work.
- tabreu 4y agoThis. Balance is key imo.
- grahar64 4y agoYes, and we should change an entire companies culture to make a new hire onboard slightly faster /s
- surement 4y agothe average tenure for software engineers at most companies is two years, so yes it's not just onboarding, a newer/more junior engineer is much more likely to misunderstand something and introduce a bug if specific context is required to understand the code
- xcambar 4y agoIn this occurrence, I couldn't measure the benefits of that specific element of culture. It may have been silent and powerful, I'll spare you the extra comment ;)