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Discussion on: How to Crush it at the Start of Your New Developer Job

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

I liked the article generally, but I think it's not 100% bullshit free since it includes the "10x developer" thing.

The concept of 10x developer is bullshit

  • it's either wrong or trivial : there are 10x people in every profession
  • it's arbitrary, 9x developers are good too
  • it creates stress that is not necessary (and stressed teams do worse work)
  • it forgets that programming is a team sport - a programmer that claims to be ten times better than anyone is a jerk I don't want to work with.
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Blaine Osepchuk

Thanks.

I didn't mean to trigger you with the '10x' adjective. Feel free to replace it with excellent or outstanding. They are all synonyms for the purposes of this post.