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It all depends on the problem space: if the deliverable is a program that produces a proof of Fermat’s last theorem then Andrew Wiles would have been a 10000000
by bjornsing 6y ago
It all depends on the problem space: if the deliverable is a program that produces a proof of Fermat’s last theorem then Andrew Wiles would have been a 1000000000000000x (or Inf) engineer on that project at a certain point in time...
Also, there are entirely different “10x engineers” being talked about as one and the same here. The copy-paste spaghetti guy probably couldn’t even get a job at Netflix...
- dktoao 6y agoAgree, my model isn't complete. Unrelated to your point but I think a lot of people who write really bad code are the only choice because they are experts in another essential domain, and there aren't a whole lot of experts in both that domain and writing software. So you do what you can. There is a reason that code written by EE's is often derided as terrible.