you'd need a reasonable definition of "productive" before we can start measuring the spread between the least and most productive engineers. any reasonable defi

you'd need a reasonable definition of "productive" before we can start measuring the spread between the least and most productive engineers. any reasonable definition wouldn't constrain the spread to a single order of magnitude. the real spread is infinite. I think people's intuition is backwards on this as well - if some engineer takes 10x less time to solve some (non-trivial) problem I'd expect some combination of underengineering andor oversimplicification which could potentially set you back by more than 10x your overall "productivity".