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Now we're introducing the notion of a 1000x employee? I call BS. The 10x employee is a bit of a unicorn, but I have known such people and the biggest thing I've
by taylodl 1y ago
Now we're introducing the notion of a 1000x employee? I call BS. The 10x employee is a bit of a unicorn, but I have known such people and the biggest thing I've noticed about them is their ability to identify BS work and not work on it and thus carve out time to focus on bigger issues whose solutions really propel the organization or project forward.
The reasons not everybody can be this 10x employee is two-fold:
1. People are content with busy work just to appear busy and don't really care if they get anything meaningful accomplished.
2. For those who are better at managing their time to focus on more impactful issues, they lack the ability to actually resolve those issues in a way that has meaningful impact.
That's why the 10x employee is so difficult to find. But a 1000x employee? Get out of here!
- __turbobrew__ 1y agoI once optimized some configs around dm-crypt block devices which increased IO throughput by 15-20% across tens of thousands of nodes. I am maybe 1 of 2 people at the company who could have done the profiling and implemented the optimization. That change was about a day or two of work for me. I think there actually exists infinity-X employees which perform work that could not be done by infinity 1x engineers. At some level, deep technical experience is not something that can be achieved by throwing more engineers at it. So depending on how you define it, I do legitimately think 1000x engineers exist.