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Another way to think about it - 50% of programmers think they are better than average. And the other 50% are. [1] [1] this assumes programmer skill is normally
by mbreese 9y ago
Another way to think about it - 50% of programmers think they are better than average. And the other 50% are. [1]
[1] this assumes programmer skill is normally distributed, which I doubt.
- orclev 9y agoAnecdotally my experience is that for every one really good developer there's about 25 or 30 mediocre ones, and 5 or so really terrible ones. This is based mostly around what I've seen conducting interviews in my area. That is also highly variable, I did some interviews for another office (in another country) and saw ratios more like for every three good developers there were two mediocre ones, and no terrible ones. Maybe we just had a much better recruiter feeding us candidates in the other country, or maybe they just have exceptional programmers living there.
- et2o 9y agoJust symmetrically distributed, doesn't have to be Gaussian. I will crawl back into my hole of pedantry now.