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I’ve worked with 0.1x engineers, where the whole team is slowed down. It becomes very draining. This is why I’ve retired and am just doing my own projects
by markb139 6y ago
I’ve worked with 0.1x engineers, where the whole team is slowed down. It becomes very draining.
This is why I’ve retired and am just doing my own projects
- daniellarusso 6y agoIf you work with 0.1x engineers, and you are 1x, does that make you a 10x within the organization?
- Shared404 6y agoAlternately, if you are a 10x, does that make everyone else look like a 0.1x?
- giantDinosaur 6y agoOne would presume that 1x is the baseline for 'competence', which is fine, but being able to do something competently vs. making it worse is really an infinite difference.
- ornornor 6y agoThis isn’t valued everywhere. I worked at a company where doing that kind of work (piling more hacks on top of what’s already there vs taking a step back and seeing if there isn’t a better way to do it while slightly improving what’s already there) was considered over-engineering things and actively discouraged.
- BurningFrog 6y agoThe way to be tall is to seek short company!
- alasdair_ 6y agoI've definitely worked with -1.0 engineers. Literally every project they were involved in would get slower as people needed to stop everything to deal with them. This isn't Mythical Man Month stuff either - no matter the size of the new project, adding specific engineers to the project made progress not just halt, but actually go backwards, as all the stuff that worked before was now broken. EDIT: And yes, bad management was a major issue with the team but some engineers seem to be negative sum, even taking management into account.