This sounds similar to the best programmer I personally know and he was an intern working at LLVM at the time. It's funny how companies treat that part of his life as "no experience". Then suddenly he goes into the HFT space and within a couple of years he has a similar rank that people have that are twice his age.
10x engineers exist. To be fair, it does depend which software engineer you see as "the standard software engineer", but if I take myself as a standard (as an employed software engineer with 5 years of experience), then 10x software engineers exist.
10x engineers exist. To be fair, it does depend which software engineer you see as "the standard software engineer", but if I take myself as a standard (as an employed software engineer with 5 years of experience), then 10x software engineers exist.