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0 pointspcurve3y ago0 comments

My fear is, I see many 0.5x programmers / workers who are active drag on products and teams. :-/ The problem with these workers are, the more you have these people on the team, it has a multiplying effect instead of additive in terms of productivity. 0.5x0.5x0.5 (not 0.5+0.5+0.5)

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pojzon3y ago

I would say it is a range from 0.1-1.0,10

Companies need those 10xdevs because they are bloated with dead weight.

But office politics make it very hard to cut that dead weight.

thorin3y ago

If most of the team are actually 0.1s then a 1 will seem like a x10.

Anyway, I've worked with plenty of people who can get stuff done, and I've been able to get stuff done myself sometimes. However, it's all relative and if I'd been at Xerox Parc in the 70s I'd have been a 0.001 for sure.

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