You expect a manager to be more competent in engineering than an engineer? You expect the manager to always expect a lie from an engineer and recheck any data received from the engineer?

Well, we have very different ideas about how engineers and managers work.

[–] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Technical managers exist. Yes, it's a manager's responsibility to understand the field he's working in. He doesn't need to be a more skilled engineer, but he needs to understand what his/her people are saying.

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

but he needs to understand what his/her people are saying.

It isn't enough to detect deliberate lies from an engineer like in this case.

[–] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There are ways to know. Did the manager ask for proof of concept? Asked for performance tests of the update and compared it to existing/baseline?

[–] Lembot_0006@programming.dev -1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Did the manager ask

How can I know? Plus engineer could easily lie as he did it right from the start.

[–] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Of course don't just ask the engineer. Any piece of code written by the engineer should ultimately be tested by a separate testing team before getting pushed to production. Ideally you have a performance and regression testing team that would help evaluate the changes being introduced and how it compares with the existing.