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Maybe its just that I look around and I am more willing to label a poor performer a .25x coder, than I am someone who can really crank it out a 10x. I think th

Maybe its just that I look around and I am more willing to label a poor performer a .25x coder, than I am someone who can really crank it out a 10x. I think the x-factor we are talking about is too abstract to really have meaning. For example, besides speed, my x-factor takes into account things like test coverage, maintainability, code performance, etc. When you make it very multi-dimensional it tends to even people out as folks often have very different strengths and weaknesses.

RyanZAG 11y ago
Sounds like a case for specializing your developers into parts of the process that they are most proficient in. However, I have seen developers who are incredible in all of those aspects and simply run rings around regular good developers. People who you can give a problem and they've already designed a fairly novel algorithm for best case complexity in 15 minutes to handle it. These people exist and they are not 1x developers, unless creating novel mathematical proofs in 15 minutes counts as 1x ....