[misja111]

Becoming a 10x engineer is more about psychology than it is about IT skills. It is about doing the right thing in the right context, about communication and about planning. Put a 10x engineer in a new company where they use different languages and frameworks, and eventually he/she will become a 10x engineer again.

So I don't see much benefit in training, what works much better is learning by example. Put junior engineers in a team with a 10x engineer and if they are open to it, they can quickly acquire the same mindset. But ofc this only works if the 10x engineer is a good tutor and coach as well.

[flanked-evergl]

Expectations also matter. If you expect nothing from people, if you infantilize them, if you spoon feed them everything, if you never expect them to figure something out that is more complicated than what you already explained to them, then you will never get people to be 10x engineers. You will get the worst quality.

Set the expectation right, treat people like adults, expect that the person you are paying and employing as an adult engineer is an adult engineer capable of solving their own problems, and they will figure out how what they need to do to meet expectations and acquire the knowledge they need, whether that be training, or just google, or just looking at existing code.

[bjornsing]

Also, there needs to be an incentive to be 10x, or at least not a disincentive (like hordes of 1x:ers seeing “brilliant assholes” everywhere).