People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates over skill competency

Re:People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates ... by steveBK123 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:26PM (#29085402)

This is the 100x Dev myth, and straw man that devs are either 100x or -100x.

As it turns out most devs are somewhere between 0.8x-1.2x. With a few 2x and 0x outliers. In many roles a 0.8x who plays well with others is vastly preferable to a 1.2x who cannot work as part of a team.

Unless you are at the most prestigious, high paying, selective firm.. then maybe you have possibly higher performing people, but by your selection process they will also be clustered themselves.. just on a different range of the band.

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Re:People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates ... by cobbzilla on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @04:27PM (#29086927)

Pedantic note: there also exist developers with a negative multiplier.

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Re:People prefer friendliness, trustworthiness in teammates ... by steveBK123 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @09:00PM (#29089814)

Agree, I've worked with one. It may cap out at like -0.5x or -1x. Anyway if your team is competent you can box them into a corner and make them a 0x pretty quickly. Usually just need to give them some big "special project/feature" and put them on their own repo or branch and let them code themselves into a black hole.

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