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Re:“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research by Nursie on Monday July 15, 2019 @06:10AM (#20439395)
Or were they 0.1x?

I'm pretty sure I've encountered -1x devs as well, who contribute little and suck time from the rest of the team.

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Re:“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research by sakarisson on Monday July 15, 2019 @11:12AM (#20441548)
According to this article, a 1x developer is the least productive developer. So logically there's no such thing as a <1x developer.
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