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Somewhat surprised by how candid the responses are - to have multiple of your survey subjects say they are seriously considering quitting! I enjoy that there's an entire blocker for "Teams isn't working".

Personally my worst days are "I did a thing, rolled it out, found it was seriously broken, rolled it back, and now it's 6pm and that is what I did today". I couldn't see anything in their report that would cover that failure mode (it's worse than "couldn't get anything done", because I was demonstrably incompetent at what I did do).




> “I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”

-Thomas Edison, on failure and inventing the light bulb.


"demonstrably incompetent" and "demonstrably unsuccessful" are two different things. You can be the latter at a task without necessarily being the former.


> "I did a thing, rolled it out, found it was seriously broken, rolled it back, and now it's 6pm and that is what I did today".

"Poor productivity" ranked 3rd in figure 4.


Well for us this could be internal job boards. When companies have 10k+ engineers our internal job boards are huge with people switching teams all the time.




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