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The 10x is in comparison to the least productive engineer. In your model they get a zero so you actually have infinity x. Score your zero up slightly to 0.2 an
by jahewson 5y ago
The 10x is in comparison to the least productive engineer. In your model they get a zero so you actually have infinity x.
Score your zero up slightly to 0.2 and a 10x is now a 2.
It’s not so drastic a claim really. The common misinterpretation is that it’s 10x the average.
- denton-scratch 5y agoWell, yes, I was thinking the same way. But I'm aware that many of those I've rated zero are actually something negative, as in "Please stop writing code" (I was trying to be generous). I'm thinking of people with personality defects, who are also novice coders, who also think they're God's gift, and therefore won't take advice. So the score is a continuum, and there are negative (and zero) values. If that conflicts with the "x10" concept, then I'm not unhappy. I'm also conscious of the notion that some super-clever people can unexpectedly wreck an organisation or team, instead of sparking it off. It's not insane to think of a -x4 dev. Very smart, but anyone picking up his work has a mountain to climb.