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Yegor Denisov-Blanch Profile picture
Yegor Denisov-Blanch
@yegordb
Stanford | Research: Software Engineering Productivity 8th grade dropout | ex-Olympic Weightlifting Nat'l Champion (Master of Sport) Views are my own
Nov 20 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
I’m at Stanford and I research software engineering productivity.

We have data on the performance of >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)Image How do we know 9.5% of software engineers are Ghosts?

Our model quantifies productivity by analyzing source code from private Git repos, simulating a panel of 10 experts evaluating each commit across multiple dimensions.

We've published a paper on this and have more on the way Image