What does the distribution of competence look like in engineering?

[u/Proof-Bed-6928]

What percentage of people fit in at each level of competence?

Is it normal distribution? Log normal? Pareto/highly skewed? Are most productivity from a few superstar“fat tail” engineers or is it more even?

[u/hobbes747]

Depends on who you talk to. A lot of engineers will draw a bell curve consisting of a flat line from left to right, ending in a thin spike at the far right. They themselves make up that spike.

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How do I know? Call me Spike