Re:“10x engineers”: Stereotypes and research
by username90 on Monday July 15, 2019 @11:51AM
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> But I have never seen one that can do that _and_ produce quality.
I've never seen a mediocre dev produce quality so it isn't needed in order to be 10 times as productive as a mediocre dev.
What I think usually happens is that the 10x dev produces 10x as much technical debt as everyone else, so the team thinks that this guy is blocking all of them when it would have been just as bad if they put 10 mediocre people to do it instead, just that then the blame would have gotten spread out among 10 persons.
Or he produces 10x the quality and 1x the code of everyone else, but his mediocre colleagues doesn't notice that his code is better since everyone else added so much crap so he is seen as just a decent 1x dev.
I've never seen a mediocre dev produce quality so it isn't needed in order to be 10 times as productive as a mediocre dev.
What I think usually happens is that the 10x dev produces 10x as much technical debt as everyone else, so the team thinks that this guy is blocking all of them when it would have been just as bad if they put 10 mediocre people to do it instead, just that then the blame would have gotten spread out among 10 persons.
Or he produces 10x the quality and 1x the code of everyone else, but his mediocre colleagues doesn't notice that his code is better since everyone else added so much crap so he is seen as just a decent 1x dev.