Comment by hinkley

When I look at 10x engineers who look like 10x engineers what I typically find instead is a 3x engineer leaving a path of destruction behind them. If you give everyone else impostor syndrome and difficult processes they slow down, and you look better than you are. Than you deserve.

The real heroes are the ones who make everyone else look better. But some managers only figure out who that is when they quit or when the business lays off the wrong guy because Steve produces less than Sarah, but that’s because Steve is helping people all the time, including Sarah.