How ChatGPT* improved Scoro’s work efficiency by 512x?
Knowledge sharing is the cornerstone of every healthy organization. We also take it very seriously here at Scoro, which is why we’ve launched a new initiative to give people an opportunity to participate in different roles and enhance their existing skills.
Introducing Scoro Bootcamp™. By random selection, starting from the top of the alphabet, we are sending 8 of our team members to a special operation in an unidentified location in our office.
Self-development will take place over the course of two weeks, during which participants will take part in various activities.
One of the most talked about exercises is the midnight on-call simulation. It starts with a sudden wake-up call, usually in the middle of the night. With this drill, we aim to enhance the computer opening and coffee consumption speed of the cadets. By the end of the boot camp, they are usually able to boot up not only their computer but also all the widgets around them within 30 seconds, while drinking two cups of coffee — dual-wielded.
Another activity worth mentioning is the “dev-oops” rotation. With this exercise, we want to give every Scorer the possibility to accidentally drop a database from production. There’s a saying that you are not a real engineer unless you have done just that. So every now and then, a cadet gets an SMS with root access to one of the database servers, with the sole mission to feel the anxiety of deleting massive amounts of data. Once data has been removed, the rotation is passed on to the next person without any context. This simulates the effect where systems are throwing errors, but nobody knows why.
Although we do not tolerate finger-pointing, we still pay attention to making our fingers stronger. For this drill, we have a special heavily typed typewriter to type a TypeScript snippet for capturing all the chocolate-type cookies from the kitchen without the other types noticing.
To give the whole company a better overview of what and how things are done in the Engineering team, we always include someone with no technical background in our training camp as well. That also guarantees that no one from Engineering is last in performance — because performance is very important.
Graduation exercise is as follows:
Make a MR, for FR, but PR after CR.
Can you figure it out? Let us know in the comments ; )
*This post was not written by ChatGPT nor CatGPT. Meow!
Was the graduation exercise a piece of cake? Or a bit of a head-scratcher and you’d like to find out what it means? Either way, know that we are hiring: https://www.scoro.com/careers/
