Re:Busting the 10x software engineer myth
by toast0 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:57AM
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> People leave. If your 10x (or 3x or 5x) engineer quits: are you really going to hire 3,5 or 10 people to replace them? Unlikely. And even if you do, institutional knowledge is lost.
When I left my last job, part of what I was doing was replaced by a team that built up to 5 engineers last I checked. They're doing it more intensely (although, I don't think with better results), and they've got to have a lot more communication than when I did it (I was trusted to do cowboy deploys to an isolated system, they've got to deal with code reviews and just making each other aware of what they're doing because 5 people in a small system means overlapping work). And, I did a bunch of other stuff too which AFAIK didn't really get picked up, but hopefully they've been lucky and not had weird TLS problems or other 'select is broken' experiences lately.
When I left my last job, part of what I was doing was replaced by a team that built up to 5 engineers last I checked. They're doing it more intensely (although, I don't think with better results), and they've got to have a lot more communication than when I did it (I was trusted to do cowboy deploys to an isolated system, they've got to deal with code reviews and just making each other aware of what they're doing because 5 people in a small system means overlapping work). And, I did a bunch of other stuff too which AFAIK didn't really get picked up, but hopefully they've been lucky and not had weird TLS problems or other 'select is broken' experiences lately.