My fear is, I see many 0.5x programmers / workers who are active drag on products and teams. :-/ The problem with these workers are, the more you have these people on the team, it has a multiplying effect instead of additive in terms of productivity. 0.5x0.5x0.5 (not 0.5+0.5+0.5)
If most of the team are actually 0.1s then a 1 will seem like a x10.
Anyway, I've worked with plenty of people who can get stuff done, and I've been able to get stuff done myself sometimes. However, it's all relative and if I'd been at Xerox Parc in the 70s I'd have been a 0.001 for sure.
>Copy/pastes code snippets from Stack Overflow, Glitch, Codepen, or wherever they find answers.
>Gives credit where credit is due.
>Spends time on things outside of engineering, like hobbies, friends, and family.
>Doesn't act surprised when someone doesn’t know something.
>Willing to admit when they're wrong, and aren't afraid to say "I don't know."
>Doesn't riddicule entire professions within engineering, especially not when in a position of leadership.