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0 pointsnaniwaduni5y ago0 comments

Or, alternatively, the 0.1x engineer and the -10x engineer. (Or worse, the -10x PM.)

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As the joke goes, "There does exist a 10x engineer, but unfortunately it's in binary"

Yeah. Engineers fall on a distribution. It's just that simple.

OK, now if it were only simple to figure out where on that distribution a particular engineer falls during the limited time of the hiring process.

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0 pointsnaniwaduni5y ago0 comments

Or, alternatively, the 0.1x engineer and the -10x engineer. (Or worse, the -10x PM.)

As the joke goes, "There does exist a 10x engineer, but unfortunately it's in binary"

Yeah. Engineers fall on a distribution. It's just that simple.

OK, now if it were only simple to figure out where on that distribution a particular engineer falls during the limited time of the hiring process.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse