Re:High performance individuals and teams (2020)
by benreesman on Friday May 27, 2022 @07:50PM
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Comp-structure would beg to differ. Being able to do technical work that few others can gets you 5-20x the median.
Being able to navigate the Byzantine hallways of high-stakes executive politics, even more.
Being able to do both without flashing a “neuro-atypical” badge in any public way? You’re making 10-50MM a year.
Consensus around here tends to be that’s a lot more than 10x. So unless the market is utterly busted (which implies an exploitable arbitrage), the notion of a “10x” engineer is way low.
What do you reckon Carmack makes when he chooses to work? I bet it’s a lot more than 10x the median.
If you can schmooze with stake-holders, explain esoteric subjects to non-technical people in a simple manner, and are pleasant to be around, _on top of_ being able to grok basically any code, you're "10x"