The Real 10X Engineer...
The Real 10X Engineer…
- Is a person who tests their own code before they deploy to avoid issues instead of relying on someone else to test it.
- Knows when to make tradeoffs that will add technical debt and, little by little, reduce the debt without you noticing.
- Knows how to spend your budget rather than run up your AWS or GCP bill. If they do, they take responsibility and make it right.
- Thinks through the issues and anticipates change even if it never comes. That’s called architectural design.
- Doesn’t go home and shutdown their brains. They are always thinking about the problems they need to solve.
- Will be humble because they know that they don’t know everything and are constantly trying to improve.
Most importantly, a real 10X engineers is not primarily there for the pay, but because they care about what they are building.