[cccc4all]

There are reasons why terms like 10x engineer, Rockstar engineer, Ninja engineers are thrown about in the industry.

Google paid Anthony Levandowski $120 Million to lead their autonomous car project, before he went to Uber and the legal troubles. Uber was paying him more than Google.

Facebook paid $16 Billion for What's App, which only had around 50 engineers at the time. Facebook was buying the IP and the productive software engineering members of the team.

There are countless other examples.

No amount of management process can create productive software engineers. That's why companies recruit productive software engineers from other companies. That's why companies buy other companies that has productive software engineers with proven products.

Productive Software Engineers are exceptional. Their work are worth Trillions of dollars and generates Billions of dollars in revenue every year.

[tonyedgecombe]

Facebook was buying the IP and the productive software engineering members of the team.

Facebook was buying the customers. If it was just an engineering problem they could have done it on their own.