I find the idea of the Ghost jobs fascinating, and thank you for publishing the list of specific companies! But I still can’t imagine how that works.
My typical work experience (and I’ve had many jobs) is that there are sprints, you get some Jira tasks assigned, and you are supposed to have them finished by the end of the sprint. There is simply no way to accomplish that without making a few nontrivial commits in the version control; if you don’t close your Jira tasks the managers will notice; and if you perhaps tried to close the Jira task without writing the code, the testers would notice, and if not them, then definitely the customer would. Could someone please explain to me how specifically this works?
I am not a software engineer, and I’ve encountered cases where it seems plausible that an engineer has basically stopped putting in work. It can be tough to know for sure for a while even when you notice. But yeah, it shouldn’t be able to last for THAT long, but if no one is paying attention?
I’ve also had jobs where I’ve had periods with radically different hours worked, and where it would have been very difficult for others to tell which it was for a while if I was trying to hide it, which I wasn’t.
I find the idea of the Ghost jobs fascinating, and thank you for publishing the list of specific companies! But I still can’t imagine how that works.
My typical work experience (and I’ve had many jobs) is that there are sprints, you get some Jira tasks assigned, and you are supposed to have them finished by the end of the sprint. There is simply no way to accomplish that without making a few nontrivial commits in the version control; if you don’t close your Jira tasks the managers will notice; and if you perhaps tried to close the Jira task without writing the code, the testers would notice, and if not them, then definitely the customer would. Could someone please explain to me how specifically this works?
I am not a software engineer, and I’ve encountered cases where it seems plausible that an engineer has basically stopped putting in work. It can be tough to know for sure for a while even when you notice. But yeah, it shouldn’t be able to last for THAT long, but if no one is paying attention?
I’ve also had jobs where I’ve had periods with radically different hours worked, and where it would have been very difficult for others to tell which it was for a while if I was trying to hide it, which I wasn’t.