The awkward thing can be that you don't know if they're lazy or not competent. I've had coworkers that took days to accomplish what I was able to do in less tha

The awkward thing can be that you don't know if they're lazy or not competent. I've had coworkers that took days to accomplish what I was able to do in less than an hour. I always thought they were lazy (like me), but it turned out some of them were just so bad at understanding problems and solving them that it took them that long working on it full time. For example a bug fix can be done within seconds if you immediately see where the bug must be just from the error message or the observed behavior. If not, you might have to debug thousands of lines of code. Not saying these people were less smart, but certainly less suitable for the job they were doing.