9. 10x engineers are poor mentors as they can't teach others on what to do OR parcel the work. They always think "It takes too long to teach or discuss with others, I would rather do it myself." They are also poor interviewers.
— Shekhar Kirani (@skirani) July 11, 2019
As finding 10x engineers is hard, my policy would be to hire two 24/7 engineers. https://t.co/kcDnBtPrxj
— Ferenc Huszár🇪🇺 (@fhuszar) July 13, 2019
10x Data Scientists
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) July 13, 2019
Founders if you ever come across this rare breed of Data Scientists, grab them. If you have a 10x Data Scientist as part of your starting Data Science team, you increase the odds of your startup success significantly.
How do you spot a 10x Data Scientist?
5/11
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) July 13, 2019
10x Data Scientists are Kaggle Grandmasters. They win solo gold medals in all Kaggle competitions, yet they spend no time on Kaggle because they work 18 hour days on their day job.
Manager: What are you doing?! Production is down!
— Vicki Boykis (@vboykis) July 13, 2019
Me: Oops.
Manager: I thought you said you were a 10x engineer?!
Me: Well I am, but my productivity level is a multiple of the other engineers at the company, who are all 0x.
The entire community is dunking on the silly 10x engineer tweet but that's not the most valuable use of your brain. Instead, positive sum! What tactics took you from a 0-1x engineer or a 1-10x engineer that others might learn from? Reply, quote tweet, sing, ..! ^_^
— Smerity (@Smerity) July 13, 2019
How can someone so not able to read the room get to be an investor? It’s as if he has a sunk cost fallacy for thoughts. LPs should run for the hills. pic.twitter.com/ZhZWzDglt6
— Delip Rao (@deliprao) July 13, 2019
That 10x thread started new internet memes and made the term “10x engineer” a controversial term, so in the end things turned out okay ...
— hardmaru (@hardmaru) July 14, 2019
10x researchers
— Zachary Lipton (@zacharylipton) July 14, 2019
Professors, if you ever come across this rare breed of researchers, grab them. If you have a 10x researcher as part of your lab, you increase the odds of winning a Turing award significantly.
OK, here is a tough question.
How do you spot a 10x researcher?
P.S. If you think a great engineer is someone with such an overly-specific list of traits, you should check your bias. I'm guessing you've skipped over some incredible (and diverse) hires with such a narrow worldview.
— Data Science Renee (@BecomingDataSci) July 14, 2019
I can't help but hear - in a Jeff Foxworthy voice - "You might be a 10x engineer..." 😂
— Data Science Renee (@BecomingDataSci) July 14, 2019
In all seriousness, though, let's please stop perpetuating toxic stereotypes re: how to spot "must-hires" in tech, ok?
Antidote to the original "10x engineer" thread https://t.co/PpERnp4GRg
— Data Science Renee (@BecomingDataSci) July 14, 2019
