Episode 157: How to deal with a consistent low performer and my architect wants me to switch from Ruby to Java

Soft Skills Engineering

• Episode: Episode 157: How to deal with a consistent low performer and my architect wants me to switch from Ruby to Java
• Website: Soft Skills Engineering
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• Duration: 00:33:08
• Published: 2019-05-13 21:00

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions:

1. I became a manager a year go. I took over someone as my direct report who was not performing well at the time. On my first day, I gave a motivational chat to welcome him again to the team and continued to motivate him. But after 1 year, he is not improving at all. I give him clear feedback and set expectations but he just doesn’t change. This got to a point where it is stressful for both of us. And since I spent so much time on just for this issue, I fear that it adds to the stress and may affect my decisions. What should I do?

2. I’ve just join the company as a Ruby/RoR developer. After half a year the architect presented new way of developing the product and said that from now all new features will be writen in Java/Spring Boot and we switch to micriservice architecture. But I don’t like Java, don’t want to switch (I have 6 year expirience with Ruby), what should I do?