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0 pointst0astbread6y ago0 comments

Right. But you can't build a functioning team that works together and can rely on each other by fostering a culture of competition and hiring only the "predestined" 10x engineers.

If the team culture is to help each other, forgive mistakes and learn from each other without measuring who's the best the team will automatically build itself without the need to hire only "10x engineers".

Or so I suppose. I'm not an HR person or anyone else with expertise in this field so you should take what I say with a grain of salt. I've just been thinking about this a lot as of late.

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closeparen6y ago

Where I’ve seen teams with high concentrations of unusually smart people, they gelled and collaborated at least as well as anyone else. In fact the bandwidth and fidelity of their idea transfers is part of what made them impressive. It’s like they had their own little language to describe the codebase and what to do with it.

These were mature and soft-spoken people; might be different with brash young hotshots.

t0astbreadOP6y ago

To me that sounds like an environment where there's not a lot of competition involved. (Which is what I was describing.)

closeparen6y ago

They were far and away the most selective team in the company.

I’ve seen this before in university too; competitive to get into can still be cooperative once in.

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lonelappde6y ago

Your dream team is great, missing only a 10x person to lead them, inventing MapReduce or MacOS or AWS.

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0 pointst0astbread6y ago0 comments

Right. But you can't build a functioning team that works together and can rely on each other by fostering a culture of competition and hiring only the "predestined" 10x engineers.

Or so I suppose. I'm not an HR person or anyone else with expertise in this field so you should take what I say with a grain of salt. I've just been thinking about this a lot as of late.

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closeparen6y ago

These were mature and soft-spoken people; might be different with brash young hotshots.

t0astbreadOP6y ago

To me that sounds like an environment where there's not a lot of competition involved. (Which is what I was describing.)

closeparen6y ago

They were far and away the most selective team in the company.

I’ve seen this before in university too; competitive to get into can still be cooperative once in.

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lonelappde6y ago

Your dream team is great, missing only a 10x person to lead them, inventing MapReduce or MacOS or AWS.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse