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You've managed to roll the myth of 10x engineers, start-up geniuses, nostalgia and gut feelings into one message of very dubious veracity. At the same time you
by blub 8y ago
You've managed to roll the myth of 10x engineers, start-up geniuses, nostalgia and gut feelings into one message of very dubious veracity.
At the same time you ignored the massive complexity and size of Google compared to what they were at the beginning.
This is voodoo organisational analysis.
- engineeringwoke 8y ago10x engineers are real. Start-up geniuses are real. The large majority of people have their heads up their asses. Wake up and smell the coffee
- mav3rick 8y agoYou can't find and hire geniuses for every component. Systems should scale with the average engineer in mind (so should code). We have all smelt the coffee and it smells even better when your team is efficient and well rested.
- engineeringwoke 8y agoI don't disagree. Building around 10x'ers in this way creates god complexes and unhappy "senior" engineers (since they don't do any of the cool work). Having one very early still juices your productivity