They described a lot of anti social and strait up toxic behavior and seemed to glorify it. It was absurd. It seemed like the kind of behavior that would all but ensure someone thinks they’re so much more productive than everyone else, and would prevent them from ever seeing that they aren’t.
I was a bit dismayed when I realized they were serious…
And in my experience, these people usually are not braggarts or have huge egos, they are just really good at solving problems expediently.
Some make a great career out of it, many get stuck in the trenches.
Again, I want to emphasize that there's nothing wrong with being a programmer who's not super into programming in most work environments, but along with aptitude, experience, and what not, actually enjoying the task can make a big difference.
That’s my experience as well. The real ultra productive devs are surprisingly easygoing. Nothing like the 10x memes.
I’ll glorify that all day.
I'm confident at this point that we've doubled productivity, which would make our "Head of" a 10x engineer :)
Since we’re putting numbers on things, how did we go from 2x to 10x?
Napkin pseudo math for sure.. but when has that even stopped us from categorizing engineers with these labels.
I suppose you could also be 10x everyone else you work with by deliberately sabotaging the rest of your team...