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I say this every time the mythical 10x engineer thing shows up. I've _never_ heard of a 10x salary difference for engineers. If you are a 10x engineer, that s

I say this every time the mythical 10x engineer thing shows up. I've _never_ heard of a 10x salary difference for engineers. If you are a 10x engineer, that strongly suggests you're giving away free productivity to your boss. If you own your own company, great! Even better would be to give 2x of your productivity to your boss, which is probably more than you're being compensated for, and use the 8x leftover for your own enrichment. But there is almost literally no way that you are being fairly compensated if you really are 10 times as productive as your average engineer.

cloverich 7y ago
> I've _never_ heard of a 10x salary difference for engineers. A Netflix engineer was on HN the other day claiming they make 800k and work from home. > But there is almost literally no way that you are being fairly compensated if you really are 10 times as productive as your average engineer. (Assuming they exist, of course) I'd wager if a 10x engineer was involved in a mundane business, they would be 10x without giving 100% of their time. Or rather, they'd give 100% of their time sometimes, and 20% of their time more often.