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Re:Busting the 10x software engineer myth by beckingz on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:50AM (#28616309)
The Survey cited in Peopleware says that it is a 10x difference between the best and the worst performers. The best performers were something like 2.5x the average performer, as measured by time to complete a specific coding task in the 70s.

Office environment was a factor in performance.

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Re:Busting the 10x software engineer myth by Jensson on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:58AM (#28617045)
Peopleware is 30 years old though. Back then very few decided to become programmers. Today when everyone flocks to the field chasing money and you have several orders of magnitude more programmers the ratio could be very different.
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