In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top 10 percent

Re:In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top... by bryanrasmussen on Sunday October 14, 2018 @03:12PM (#18214566)

yes, they make more work for other people to fix than they contribute, but they don't make more work to fix than the people who are making work that fixes are doing. There is no -10x engineer, hardly even any -1x engineer - probably the worst you find are -.5 engineers.

In fact I knew a guy whose effect on a project was to wipe out several years of progress but to be fair he was not a -.5 engineer, in some ways it was just the bad chance that led to him having such a detrimental effect, in another scenario he might very well have been a +2 or more engineer.

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Re:In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top... by snovv_crash on Monday October 15, 2018 @01:45AM (#18217657)

I saw -10x: they chose some crazy architecture for something then dug their heels in. The two people who historically got all the work done, both about 5x, decided to quit because of this. So now the work still needed to be done, in the crazy architecture, without the two best engineers, and on top of that time needed to be spent on hiring. Go forward a year and the progress the company made was probably less than it would have in a month before the fancy new architecture was introduced, and the loss of talent.

Additionally I've seen managers/HR demotivate a team of 5 so thoroughly that nobody got work done for 2 weeks. That is -5x from a single meeting.

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Re:In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top... by monsieurbanana on Sunday October 14, 2018 @05:56PM (#18215681)

Any bad engineer in a position of architect or similar can easily destroy the efficiency of a full team. Hell, of the whole company.

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