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Re:In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top... by vonmoltke on Sunday October 14, 2018 @05:28PM (#18215477)
> And a bad engineer can destroy as much.

Often claimed, rarely proven. Usually in those cases it's actually management doing the value-destroying, by either misallocating people or refusing to act on removing bad engineers.

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Re:In Silicon Valley wages are down for everyone but the top... by tootahe45 on Sunday October 14, 2018 @06:26PM (#18215874)
If you have a good engineer who is constantly tutoring the bad instead of building things, then you are losing a good portion of value (the $10m that would've otherwise been created) by the good engineer. This is not as big a problem for Google with thousands of engineers but is a huge problem in smaller startups.
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