SMRTR ProgrammingNov 29, 2024Daily.dev

About 10% of developers ‘do virtually nothing’

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A Stanford study of over 50,000 software engineers found that 9.5% contribute minimal work, dubbed "0.1x engineers." These "ghost engineers" are more prevalent in remote work (14%) than office settings (6%), often making fewer than 3 commits per month or only trivial code changes.

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