How to Find 10X Engineers

Or how companies have managed to screw up team culture

I often get asked where to find the best developers. After all, in my work supporting developer communities, I come across 10X Engineers all the time. Well, after much research, a half million miles of air travel, and enough cold brew to fill the Gulf of Oman, I have found their secret hideout!

Well OK, maybe it’s not that easy. What can we say about 10X Engineers? What do they look like and how do they operate? Well, this weekend Shekhar Kirani lent the gift of his immense experience and insight as to what to look out for:

For those not inclined to read through his tweets, allow me to provide an abridged version of Kirani’s Bible of 10X Engineers. They do not like meetings, regular schedules, documentation, hacky code, mentoring or helping other mere earthlings, and job hunting. They know all the code as they are fullstack and can summon it magically from their minds in mere hours.

As thorough as Shekhar is, even he cannot fully grasp all the ways of 10X Engineers. Luckily Mike Conley is here to fill in some of the gaps for us:

A 10x engineer is usually levitating, and farting out 1’s and 0’s as they whiteboard a proof that…