I don't think it is possible to really be sure that you are a 10x engineer - it's more of an outside validation thing. Everyone thinks they're really good and that only they run into weird emotional issues that slow them down. People like to rationalize.
If you see one of your co-workers doing 10x the work of your other co-workers at high quality, then it's much easier to label them at a 10x engineer than trying to label yourself. Objective vs subjective.
You are profitable on fix-cost projects only. :-)
Re:I believe in the 10x engineer, but
by lifeisstillgood on Saturday January 23, 2016 @12:03PM
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can you tell us more about the design alternatives?
grep and a server with 64gb of memory instead of a 4 rack Hadoop deployment.
Last week I was pulled into the tail end of a project which had just got pushed back to the end of February for complications. The project was now billed at 3 guys, 3 weeks. After spending an hour in a meeting I came up with a solution that is going to be implemented on Tuesday by one guy. Same risk, but a fraction of the work.
I know most of the time when you think about 10xers you think about some kind of math / programming / algorithm god, but don't discount big picture skills. Unfortunately I'm not sure how you teach big picture skills or put them down on a resume.