What are Ghost Engineers?
An episode of the Coding With Strangers podcast, hosted by Coding With Strangers, titled "What are Ghost Engineers?" was published on December 5, 2024 and runs 21 minutes.
December 5, 2024 ·21m · Coding With Strangers
Summary
Hey Strangers, Grab 20% off Selected items and subscriptions using my Link:https://livezesty.com/CODINGWITHSTRAN...or use my code at checkout: CODINGWITHSTRANGERS #tech #ghostdeveloper #salary A Stanford study examining software engineering productivity, conducted on over 50,000 software engineers across hundreds of companies, has found that around 9.5% of engineers contribute minimal work. Ghost engineers, as the research named them, receive full salaries and cost companies billions each year. To draw a comparison with 10x engineers, they’re called 0.1 engineers because their output equals 0.1 median engineer’s work. ======================================= My other podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw ************************************************** Something Strange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s ************************************************** article links: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16922758/elon-musk-compensation-tesla ====================================== Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discord https://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxq TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoder Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@codingwithstrangers Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangers Twitter https://twitter.com/strangestcoder merch Support CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merch Github Follow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangers Tips https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tip Patreon patreon.com/TheStrangers Timeline 00:00 intro 00:57 What Talking We Talking About 04:16 Article 12:14 My Thoughts 1900 outro anything else? Take Care --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message
Episode Description
Hey Strangers, Grab 20% off Selected items and subscriptions using my Link:https://livezesty.com/CODINGWITHSTRAN...or use my code at checkout: CODINGWITHSTRANGERS #tech #ghostdeveloper #salary A Stanford study examining software engineering productivity, conducted on over 50,000 software engineers across hundreds of companies, has found that around 9.5% of engineers contribute minimal work. Ghost engineers, as the research named them, receive full salaries and cost companies billions each year. To draw a comparison with 10x engineers, they’re called 0.1 engineers because their output equals 0.1 median engineer’s work. ======================================= My other podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw ************************************************** Something Strange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s ************************************************** article links: https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/23/16922758/elon-musk-compensation-tesla ====================================== Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discord https://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxq TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoder Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@codingwithstrangers Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangers Twitter https://twitter.com/strangestcoder merch Support CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merch Github Follow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangers Tips https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tip Patreon patreon.com/TheStrangers Timeline 00:00 intro 00:57 What Talking We Talking About 04:16 Article 12:14 My Thoughts 1900 outro anything else? Take Care --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message
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