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one in 10 engineers don’t do anything (study, n=50k)

I’m at Stanford and I research software engineering productivity. 

We have data on the performance of &gt;50k engineers from 100s of companies.

Inspired by @deedydas, our research shows:

~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers (0.1x-ers) https://t.co/uygyfhK2BW

Yegor Denisov-Blanch

one in 10 engineers don’t do anything (study, n=50k)

https://x.com/yegordb/status/1859290734257635439?s=46

let's build clank.fun. prev: web3 founder, improbable, github, amazon. ntik.me

Ok, the guy based his whole study on GitHub activity... That tells a lot about how ignorant he is about the engineer's work...

If coding to you is just pushing code like you just push levers in a factory, that's not engineering work. That's just worker work.

+ to create issues? to review code?

if you see coding as factory work you have the wrong mindset imo

you could do all those things

or you could just do the work

No, just that coding is only one small part of the work. You have many tasks before and after. That includes refining the issue understanding and reproduce it, debugging, clarifying the need, discuss the options you have to fix or evolve your codebase, put safety nets in place, sync with security teams, do back and forth with product design team, review code of course, but also share good practices and educated, build processes to streamline work and make sure everyone is on the same track... Most of this is not visible on GitHub. If you think this is not engineering work, then you've got the wrong mindset imo.