> * Incompetent engineers and bad actors can act as negative 10x engineers. I worked with an engineer, let's call him Mark, whose 'talent' was to get involve

> * Incompetent engineers and bad actors can act as negative 10x engineers. I worked with an engineer, let's call him Mark, whose 'talent' was to get involved in everyone else's problems during the stand up. When I first joined, he was 6 months late delivering his own project, which was eventually a year late, and that was the reason. He was a drag on the entire team. Rather than stand ups being a way of learning what everyone else was doing and offering help later, it turned it into guarded, cryptic, monosyllabic updates, lasting seconds. He'd spend half an hour at someone's desk after the stand up, trying to get up to speed on 3-6 months in 25 minutes to knock out a 5 minute solution that never worked. He was asked to leave and productivity soared. "Don't be a Mark" is still a phrase in our company.