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wow! How did he manage it? 10X engineer with good social/communication skills?

• cj 5y ago
  Quite the opposite. Did the bare minimum to not be fired. Never took initiative. And stayed silent in all meetings unless forced to speak. Definitely not a 10x, just a scam artist.
  • lovich 5y ago
    >Did the bare minimum to not be fired? Did you only fire him because you found out he worked other jobs or because he didn't do enough work?
    • BenjiWiebe 5y ago
      Maybe a "mere" beach of contact would have been excusable provided he was doing an amazing job.
      • cj 5y ago
        It’s less about the breach of contract and more about the breach of trust. (He was also not doing an amazing job - he required constant supervision without which he wouldn’t produce any meaningful output, presumably because he had 2 other managers he was trying to please at the same time)
    • cj 5y ago
      He was fired because I can’t trust our production AWS keys to someone who lies about who he works for. It’s not so much about whether he was a good coder. More that I can’t trust someone with production database access if I discover 6 months in that he has 2 other full time jobs.
    • didntknowya 5y ago
      sounds like they didn't really need to be paying a full time worker and could have got a casual/part-timer to handle the load instead
      • cj 5y ago
        You’re right. What we got was a part time worker being paid a full time wage.