[fecak]

The hardest part of this is turning people down. Everyone feels they are high talent (almost everyone) or top 10%, but obviously they can't all be right. The amount of people they will have to reject could be enough to give people a negative impression of them - of how they evaluate and rate talent, elitism, etc. It will be interesting to see how it goes.

Tech pros love to hate how companies evaluate talent - tests, coding exercises, interviews, whiteboard work, Fermi problems. How they choose to evaluate talent, and whether they choose to tell some coders 'sorry, you aren't 10x material' will be very telling.

[justinsb]

Definitely agree - I don't think this aspect of 10x's focus will be easy. But that's what I'd be paying for as a 10x customer - that they've done the difficult job of telling people that are perfectly competent "thanks, but no thanks".