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sghiassyyesterday at 9:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

I worked on a 20-ish team of good-but-not-brilliant engineers. Our secret weapon was liking each other and having very low turnover over the course of 10 years.

As a principal engineer at Meta and LinkedIn, it’s still the most productive team I’ve ever been on


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CSMastermindyesterday at 9:55 PM

No matter how much I try to explain to some executives that you don't want the most productive individuals, you want the most productive team, they just don't get it.

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rifficyesterday at 11:45 PM

Studies have been performed and they come to the conclusion the highest performing teams are the ones with greatest psychological safety:

https://psychsafety.com/googles-project-aristotle/