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While there are lots of people trying to break into the industry, the real question is how good are they? Building games is hard work. It's just an anecdote, b
by spamizbad 5y ago
While there are lots of people trying to break into the industry, the real question is how good are they? Building games is hard work.
It's just an anecdote, but one dev told me at the studio he worked on, his project had 22 engineers assigned, but just 3 devs ultimately contributed 90% of the code written. And while those 3 devs were very skilled developers, he claimed they weren't so-called "10x" engineers. They've all since moved on to greener pastures doing work outside the industry making substantially more money.
- oarabbus_ 5y ago>he claimed they weren't so-called "10x" engineers Well, sounds like they were more like 7x engineers /s
- TeeMassive 5y agoOh yeah, 10x engineers. The kind of people who create an hostile and exclusionary club where only they can move around the mental maze they created. Personally I just call them 'complexity bubbles' and just like the real estate bubbles it's never those responsible who suffer the consequences.
- eftychis 5y agoWell depends on the definition. 10x engineers in my book, ensure that the system is maintainable, simple enough for the problem, well thought and readable. Consequences also can be extremely subjective. I have the experience of a single team architecting/coding the core of the system to ensure nobody ever adds any kind of concurrency because "it's hard to reason with and we want nobody to spawn threads." Let us say the networking layer teams were not excited about this. Who is right and who is wrong: both teams had "consequences" to deal with.
- TeeMassive 5y agoI guess I was unlucky. The last two places I've worked with, taking shortcuts were the best way to get promoted. The rest of the team weren't '10x' because they spent most of their time cleaning up the mess.
- eftychis 5y agoOh no, I unfortunately agree. Taking shortcuts and politics in a lot of companies is the way to the top. I guess my bubble has a more idealistic '10x'er definition @TeeMassive.
- ryan93 5y agoThey wouldnt be 10x if they they were actually a net negative.
- TeeMassive 5y agoYou were lucky enough not to work for people who can't see beyond quarterly results and with no understanding of what technical debt is.
- ljm 5y agoMythical Man Month in a nutshell no? He could have dropped 19 engineers and paid 3 engineers more money to make it work.