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The way it works is the manager of the 10x engineer has already scheduled 100% of his time. The manager of a different team asks to borrow the same engineer fo
by rawgabbit 3y ago
The way it works is the manager of the 10x engineer has already scheduled 100% of his time.
The manager of a different team asks to borrow the same engineer for a week. The engineer’s managers obliges because he is a team player. However he does not adjust the schedule or reduce the engineers’ workload.
Junior engineers will place demands that said engineer mentors them. Again no additional time is allocated.
Meanwhile the high impact project literally affects the survival of the company. But hey the 10x engineer is a team player. He is the golden goose that deserves to beaten so the company extracts as many golden eggs as possible. Never mind if the golden goose dies. The company can always find another. /s
- borroka 3y agoYes, that's what I was saying is unlikely to happen, not impossible, certainly. The top players are generally recognized as people to be supported, put on high-value projects, and kept happy. The comment says the opposite happens, which is that the top engineers are not put in a position from which they can do the best work, but in one from which their productivity declines, the high-impact project is not done or deployed, until eventually the top engineer leaves the company, for, presumably--since why one company should be different from another?--another company where they will find the same frustratingly poor use of their talents. One of the problems I see is that many people see themselves as high-level engineers (or athletes, or professionals), but are not seen as such by others. In some cases, others are "dumb"--we have all been there--but in other instances management, which is not made up of all "dumb" professionals, may not see the talent that the alleged top engineers think they possess.