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This reflects my belief as an engineer and now manager: That every 10x developer has an entire team of people who are supporting that person. It's very likely
by jdmichal 6y ago
This reflects my belief as an engineer and now manager: That every 10x developer has an entire team of people who are supporting that person. It's very likely they would not maintain nearly the same pace if you reduced or removed that supporting staff. Additionally, there's a lot more skills than "be a feature factory" necessary to successfully deliver. The team all covers for each other within their skillsets, and sometimes that means that someone who's great at coding gets to focus heavily on that and bang out lots of features.
- collyw 6y agoAgreed, something I realize as I am getting older. Raw hackerrank coding skills aren't actually that useful, I now value someone with better team working skills than someone who can come up with algorithms instantly. Something that will be relevant most of the time versus something that might be useful once per year or less frequently.