Has anyone ever met a real 10x engineer? Are they a myth? I think I’ve finally found one. My team recently hired a new principal engineer and I was asked to help them as their onboarding buddy. I didn’t know what I (a SDE3 with 6 YOE) could help this new PE with, but I figured I could at the very least help him find wikis. The first thing that shocked me was that this new PE was only 27 years old. I’ll admit I felt a bit annoyed and kind of jealous - here I am close to 33 years old and only SDE3! As we got to talking it became apparent to me that this guy was next level - he clearly knew how to think big and was asking questions about our service that had me stumped. I didn’t hear from him for a few days, and figured he was reading through the onboarding wikis. Later that week he submitted his first CR and, I’ll be honest, I was shocked. He skipped the onboarding assignments and instead started to pick up issues that were in our sprint. The CR he submitted was for an issue I had been working on for the past 3 weeks - we had a nasty race condition that was causing fatals to be thrown almost every other request. What had taken me over 3 weeks of investigation took him a mere two days, and his solution involved a major refactoring of our entire SQS processing package. Our L7 PM was so happy it looked like he could cry - we were finally green for prime day. I’m stil shocked. I finally mustered up the courage to ask him to lunch this Monday to learn more about his past work experience, and he explained to me that he didn’t have a degree and has been programming since he was 12, and had just finished a 12 month internship as bag boy at Albertsons. As I looked into his eyes I saw years of engineering experience and wisdom... it was as if I was staring into Pandora’s box. Has anyone else experienced this? I’m still annoyed he took my task but I can’t complain because he saved our asses. TC 312k
Good god, what a twist. I don't even know if you wanted an answer, but great take on the meme.
Hmm are we suppose to believe this story? 🧐
Fake news
Please don’t make this Blind’s version of a Loch Ness monster.
Cool story bro. Needs more dragons and shit
Albertsons gave it away :) You couldn’t resist? :)
Lol got me. See folks, if you're gonna troll this is how you do it.
He joined Albertsons as a boy. Left Albertsons a man.
Had he tried Walmart, he would have came out as a grandpa!
Thank you so much for this.
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