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Aristides's avatar

What’s worse is when the Intern does it in one week and then everyone looks back at Bob wondering why it usually takes him 2 weeks.

Jamison Norwood's avatar

But when the code breaks, then everyone wonders why the intern didn't be like Bob

Flemming Nørnberg Larsen's avatar

"If one woman can give birth to a baby after 9 months, then can 9 women give birth to the same baby in 1 month?" 😉

David C.'s avatar

Sounds right to me. 2 weeks to do the task. But 2 weeks ramp-up time before he can get started. But that's a different pool of hours.

Ed Hall's avatar

One place I worked had a policy that If it helped you an intern shouldn't be doing it.

Nemanja Maksimović's avatar

10 years and 2 weeks...

flashbang's avatar

Can someone explain ?

Amanda's avatar

He's calling out how management thinks an intern can perform at the same level as an experienced engineer. Realistically it will take the intern much more time as they are still learning.