Name me one company that doesn't profile a programmer using the points and velocities (etc, etc).The up-speak and dishonesty can be seen readily when they say "All these metrics and data on your board will not be shared or used to decide your compensation or salary-revision.". The thing is that Agile, Scrum, Safe etc makes management happy that they have data which can infer devs productivity and return to the corporate. Thats all.
I’ve worked now at Facebook, tiktok, and snap. None of my teams used tickets so there are no points to track. Most of the time my tasks were just discussed with my team and main way you could track is by prs. How many points a task is worth is something I’ve only had to do for 1 job at a startup where we did follow scrum. I do occasionally give estimates but they also aren’t really tracked as they’re frequently not written down anywhere and just something I tell my teammates.
