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Perhaps we should split up the myths: 1) myth of the 10x programmer - true 2) "we hire 10x programmers" - look at salaries - false (even for companies like Go
by candiodari 9y ago
Perhaps we should split up the myths:
1) myth of the 10x programmer - true
2) "we hire 10x programmers" - look at salaries - false (even for companies like Google and Facebook, who hire -at best- 1.5x programmers)
- Consultant32452 9y agoPrice's Law suggests that the square root of the number of workers in a particular domain constitute half the productivity. This means if a particular office has 100 coders, 10 of them make up half the total productivity. So the top performers are doing ~5% of the total work each, while the regular performers, on average, are doing 0.5%. So statistically every place with 100 developers has ten 10x coders whether that's Google or anywhere else.
- dingo_bat 9y agoYou can't dismiss all of them as 1.5x. Recall the binary patching done by Microsoft a few days ago. That's the work of at least a 5x guy if not 10x. Also this is pretty silly.