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Every 10x engineer I've known has carried entire teams of normal engineers. ymmv but I've seen probably 5 instances of this and 0 instances of teams of normal
by beastman82 2y ago
Every 10x engineer I've known has carried entire teams of normal engineers. ymmv but I've seen probably 5 instances of this and 0 instances of teams of normal engineers being super productive.
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- bloomingkales 2y agoWhat are the details of this? Any engineer that built most of the stuff is not a 10x engineer. It's someone that really knows their way around their own house.
- nomel 2y ago> Any engineer that built most of the stuff is not a 10x engineer. It's someone that really knows their way around their own house. How can you meaningfully separate these?
- cmdli 2y agoI’ve seen the opposite: plenty of examples of very productive teams with really no standout “10x engineer”, and several examples of unproductive teams purely due to poor team decision making. IME, productivity is a measure of past investment, not current skill.
- dilyevsky 2y agoOh they are super productive alright when you measure by story points just not in any revenue/profit impacting sense