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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity – Terrible Software

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We reward complexity and ignore simplicity. In interviews, design reviews, and promotions. Here’s how to fix it.

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity – Terrible Software Skip to content Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity “Simplicity is a great virtue, but it requires hard work to achieve and education to appreciate. And to make matters worse, complexity sells better.” — Edsger Dijkstra I think there’s something quietly screwing up a lot of engineering teams. In interviews, in promotion packets, in design reviews: the engineer who overbuilds gets a compelling narrative, but the one who ships the simplest thing that works gets… nothing. This isn’t intentional, of course. Nobod

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