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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

I don’t mean an engineer just hammering on the keyboard shipping code at light speed. But all managers try, when they set the salary of Alice to $110,000 and Bob to $115,000. So on some level, managers certainly believe they have some precise idea of the relative value of each engineer. Headcount goals. I’ve seen it.

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Headcount goals, feature factories, and when to hire those mythical 10x people

Erik Bernhardsson

I don’t mean an engineer just hammering on the keyboard shipping code at light speed. But all managers try, when they set the salary of Alice to $110,000 and Bob to $115,000. So on some level, managers certainly believe they have some precise idea of the relative value of each engineer. What is output? Headcount goals.