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> “the top tier of engineers that are 10x more productive than the average” 10x engineers are not 10x the average, they're 10x the median. And they probably kn
by trashtester 4y ago
> “the top tier of engineers that are 10x more productive than the average”
10x engineers are not 10x the average, they're 10x the median. And they probably know the difference.
I would guess that 1-5% of engineers are 10x the median, while less than 0.1% or so are 10x the average.
- froddd 4y agoGiven the rather arbitrary nature of ‘10x’ I’m not sure this kind of precision is relevant here
- BerislavLopac 4y agoNot to mention that we actually have no idea which unit comes to the other side of that equation, after "x".
- Attrecomet 4y agoMight as well try to keep score in Calvinball