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Re:Programming is hard by IncRnd on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:49PM (#26717213)
> I've met a lot of folks who didn't believe it... right until they met one.

That right there is the truth about 10x engineers. We have one in particular I will mention. Sometimes he is a 5x, and at other times he is 20x. This is true and measurable according to the number of tickets that get closed, stay closed, and test as correct. He doesn't read HN, stack overflow, fb, twitter, tiktok, blogs, or emails during work hours. He sits down and cranks out code.

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Re:Programming is hard by 908B64B197 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:26PM (#26717599)
> measurable according to the number of tickets that get closed, stay closed, and test as correct

10x engineers also have compounding effects. These are impossible to measure, but you'll notice them when you see them. They flat out write better code.

Better code fails gracefully, is easy to read and especially nice to extend. Juniors seems to magically be able to ship features really quickly on that particular codebase and onboard really fast. If you dig deeper you'll see the 10x giving hints and feedback.

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