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by SideburnsOfDoom 1295 days ago
The "individual 10x engineer" who stands out among their peers is a bit of a myth. And a bit of a useless thing, the team's performance matters so much more than one individual on it - in fact it's possible to make the team less effective overall by e.g. raising 10x the usual rate of PRs and waiting for others to deal with them.

"great teams make great engineers", not vice versa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XppRCB99djw&list=PLuAItjWV4p...