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Unfortunately (or fortunately) there certainly are 10x engineers, and if they happen to be your coworkers, that's the most amazing thing in life. It's the diffe
by torginus 5y ago
Unfortunately (or fortunately) there certainly are 10x engineers, and if they happen to be your coworkers, that's the most amazing thing in life. It's the difference between handing a task over to someone, and finding next day that it's done in amazing quality and finding they haven't made any progress at all.
And in my experience, these people usually are not braggarts or have huge egos, they are just really good at solving problems expediently.
Some make a great career out of it, many get stuck in the trenches.
- saila 5y agoAnother huge factor is that some people actually enjoy programming, which is not to say there's anything wrong with people who don't, but when you're having fun writing code it's going to be much easier to be productive than when you view every task as a slog, and it honestly seems like there's more of the latter than the former. Again, I want to emphasize that there's nothing wrong with being a programmer who's not super into programming in most work environments, but along with aptitude, experience, and what not, actually enjoying the task can make a big difference.
- stackbutterflow 5y agoit honestly seems like there's more of the latter than the former. Probably people who went it programming for the money in the last decade. I can't imagine writing lines of code everyday for years if it's something you dread.
- duxup 5y ago> And in my experience, these people usually are not braggarts That’s my experience as well. The real ultra productive devs are surprisingly easygoing. Nothing like the 10x memes.