Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management keep making?

Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management ... by sidlls on Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:51AM (#15034090)

These 4x (or 10x or whatever outlandish multiple) developers are rare, if they even exist, unless one constrains the scope of their work to a tiny sliver of their particular expertise.

Hiring for such micro optimization is inefficient at best, ineffective usually, and counterproductive at worst.

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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management ... by jusssi on Thursday August 17, 2017 @07:51AM (#15035845)

In my experience, 0.1x and 0.25x developers don't seem to be all that rare.

The existence of a 10x developer is a question of what you use as a reference point for your scale.

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Re:Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does management ... by sidlls on Thursday August 17, 2017 @10:24AM (#15037025)

Not really. It makes it a question of context, at best. Most of the time it also relies on extremely subjective measures.

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