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I was certainly 10x engineer. Probably closer to 20x at my last job. My ex-employer was an abusive(msp) employer who couldn't hold onto senior staff. The organ

I was certainly 10x engineer. Probably closer to 20x at my last job. My ex-employer was an abusive(msp) employer who couldn't hold onto senior staff. The organization became so tremendously bottom heavy with people just out of school; I would literally have people lined up in my office waiting to talk to me to get help. I was practically the only person who wrote documentation. I was literally the only person who wrote how-tos. MYself and only 1 other person was the only people to even push positivity. The place was so toxic that everyone was looking for reasons to complain. I'd have people come into my office to hide from dispatch/work. Long story short, I reported harassment and got fired the next day. Over the next 6 months that place shed over 20 people out of 30 staff. The workload I took on doing 60 hour weeks and 24x7 on-call had to be given to others. Everyone else said that was enough and found new jobs.

trm42 7y ago
I can kind of relate to you. Not sure about the 10x but on the previous job I ended up working as team lead, pm, janitor, process developer, architecture guy, partially managing the infra, teaching the stuff to others etc. We had quite good team spirit and the people were generally awesome but there were management issues which broke our focus into pieces and we didn't get any real progress on the important stuff. In the end I didn't even realise how burnt-out I was (just trying to help and fix all the things for other devs so somebody could get something meaningful done) until some headhunter tried to recruit me and I started going through pros and cons. Switching to a job with a real focus has helped a lot and I learned a lot from that experience but happy to be somewhere else. That company kind of imploded as there was about ten working when I left and now there's three guys left trying to get the work done. Luckily their focus has finally changed and tightened and there may be some good stuff brewing up so I'm cheering for them. Still missing working with those guys, though.
- sleepysysadmin 7y ago
  Basically the same idea, I was the team lead, DBA, PM, network admin, sysadmin, linux admin, hardware, customer relations, all emergency work. I had to babysit coworkers who were impossible to work with and had been banned from multiple customers because they had temper tantrums toward the client. I got so tremendously burnt out and when I started realizing it and analyzed what's going on, I had a guy harassing me, I wrote up an email detailing the shit the guy was doing to me and the day after i report the harassment I got fired.

trm42 7y ago

I can kind of relate to you. Not sure about the 10x but on the previous job I ended up working as team lead, pm, janitor, process developer, architecture guy, partially managing the infra, teaching the stuff to others etc. We had quite good team spirit and the people were generally awesome but there were management issues which broke our focus into pieces and we didn't get any real progress on the important stuff. In the end I didn't even realise how burnt-out I was (just trying to help and fix all the things for other devs so somebody could get something meaningful done) until some headhunter tried to recruit me and I started going through pros and cons. Switching to a job with a real focus has helped a lot and I learned a lot from that experience but happy to be somewhere else. That company kind of imploded as there was about ten working when I left and now there's three guys left trying to get the work done. Luckily their focus has finally changed and tightened and there may be some good stuff brewing up so I'm cheering for them. Still missing working with those guys, though.

sleepysysadmin 7y ago
Basically the same idea, I was the team lead, DBA, PM, network admin, sysadmin, linux admin, hardware, customer relations, all emergency work. I had to babysit coworkers who were impossible to work with and had been banned from multiple customers because they had temper tantrums toward the client. I got so tremendously burnt out and when I started realizing it and analyzed what's going on, I had a guy harassing me, I wrote up an email detailing the shit the guy was doing to me and the day after i report the harassment I got fired.