[pacificleo11]

"In my experience, the 10x programmer is a bit of a myth. "

I think it depends on Industry / Role. A creative person in Advertisment or a good chip design engineer or someone great with Algorithm are often worthy of 10 or 20X compensation. Whats wrong is that many people think 10X guys can exist on Application layer / Front end. I think its very hard to do that

[groby_b]

Let me guess - you don't work on app layer or front end? :)

Of course it's hard to be 10x there. The same way it's hard to be 10x on the algorithm side. It's also a matter of scope - if you have a giant backend, and your frontend is a single text box, it's hard to tell if somebody is 10x. As the FE scope grows, you start seeing the differences.