[naniwaduni]

Or, alternatively, the 0.1x engineer and the -10x engineer. (Or worse, the -10x PM.)

[totemandtoken]

As the joke goes, "There does exist a 10x engineer, but unfortunately it's in binary"

[nullsense]

Yeah. Engineers fall on a distribution. It's just that simple.

[gwright]

OK, now if it were only simple to figure out where on that distribution a particular engineer falls during the limited time of the hiring process.