Why shouldn’t there be a continuous range of skill? Why should we want normal engineers instead of you know “good” ones, or even “really good” ones?
Oh and also, it wouldn’t hurt to qualify those skills to the specific domain to which they apply. Like “he’s a really good database engineer” or “he’s a great C# guy, but terrible at DevOps”
These articles are polarizing because they take for original assumption that the real world is discontinuous. That’s stupid.
Let’s praise the engineer that’s in the 2.5x to 7x range.
Oh and also, it wouldn’t hurt to qualify those skills to the specific domain to which they apply. Like “he’s a really good database engineer” or “he’s a great C# guy, but terrible at DevOps”
These articles are polarizing because they take for original assumption that the real world is discontinuous. That’s stupid.
Let’s praise the engineer that’s in the 2.5x to 7x range.