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sidlls on Aug 17, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What mistakes in your experience does mana...

These 4x (or 10x or whatever outlandish multiple) developers are rare, if they even exist, unless one constrains the scope of their work to a tiny sliver of their particular expertise.

Hiring for such micro optimization is inefficient at best, ineffective usually, and counterproductive at worst.

jusssi on Aug 17, 2017 [–]

In my experience, 0.1x and 0.25x developers don't seem to be all that rare.

The existence of a 10x developer is a question of what you use as a reference point for your scale.

sidlls on Aug 17, 2017 | [–]

Not really. It makes it a question of context, at best. Most of the time it also relies on extremely subjective measures.

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