[lklset]

It is not easy to find a team that wants to be "empowered" by a 10x engineer. Usually the 1x engineers focus on irrelevant or counterproductive issues, inundate the 10x with non-feasible suggestions and play office politics.

Upon which the 10x moves to inner emigration and gets work done. For which the "team" gets the credit.

Where are those teams that you speak of? At which companies?

[trulyme]

My experience is different. True 10x engineers are always well received by their peers because they make the problems go away. However 10x wannabes... That's a different story entirely. They voice their opinion when not asked, want to take credit for everything, make dubious decisions outside their capabilities... Worst of all, eventually they move to "inner emigration" and create some monstrosity that nobody asked for, let alone wants to maintain. :shrug:

[sgtnoodle]

I've appreciated the culture and how it's evolved at Zipline over the past 5 years that I've been there. If you want to work on a UAV based medical delivery system, it's a pretty cool place.

If I weren't at Zipline, I'd probably be at Reliable Robotics, but that's more because I know the founders and lots of other employees there, and they have a strong team that's set up for success.

I'm biased towards robotics companies since I'm an embedded software engineer, though.