2 weeks' work in 2 hours seems borderline unbelievable. Do you just radically overestimate the amount of effort every ticket will take? How do your coworkers/manager not push back?
I can see accomplishing that much work in 1/2 the time, or maybe even less, but you're talking about spending 1/40 the amount of time as estimated.
Many people here debate the existence of the 10x developer, and you're claiming to be a 40x developer.
To be clear: I'm definitely not claiming to be a 10x, 40x or 100x developer. I'm not claiming I could do the same amount of work as you or anyone else any faster than you or anyone else could.
It's more like my managers and product management radically overestimate the amount of time things take. Those are the people choosing how much work they think I should be able to accomplish each sprint and I don't do anything to dissuade them from the idea that that seems about right to me as well. I'm frequently praised by my manager and kidded by my colleagues about how "fast" I've managed to knock out my stories even when only working a few hours the first day of the sprint and submitting my PRs the day before or of the sprint ending. Those same managers/product managers work with many other engineers at my company so I don't know if everyone at my company is underachieving stealthily or what. As I said in my original post, I'm honestly as really, really confused as anyone else about what's going on, but since I'm praised in performance reviews, given a decent bonus, been 2x chosen for quarterly awards and promoted internally, etc, I mean, what should I do ? Demand more work ? Yeah, no thanks.
Fair enough. I guess in your place I would just be very interested in knowing how I performed compared to other people working in the field, but I can't blame you for not wanting to mess with a good thing either.
curious, do you find leetcode easy/mediums atleast somewhat challenging? or is the stuff you are doing like... connecting plumbing / CRUD stuff together in CLOUD
I haven't done leetcode type exercises in years but even then I never found them too difficult, so hard to use that as a gauge, but yeah, most of my work is implementing new products and features via somewhat fairly standard CRUD-y microservices in the cloud.
I can see accomplishing that much work in 1/2 the time, or maybe even less, but you're talking about spending 1/40 the amount of time as estimated.
Many people here debate the existence of the 10x developer, and you're claiming to be a 40x developer.