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One friend works 3 hrs/day a couple days per week as a remote software engineer earning big bucks.

This blows my mind, but I can totally see it happening, and have seen it happen first hand, yet it still blows my mind. I knew of one guy that just went in the office and took naps. Shockingly, he was actually let go, though I don't know what the actual cause was. But there's definitely people who take advantage when it comes to remote work, being unsupervised. Meanwhile, I usually sit at my desk (at home) and am so engrossed in work that I work through traditional lunch time lol.

It makes me wonder if the 10x engineer is really just the guy that actually does his job.

Could be. It's pretty hard to measure, IMO. I learned of the term "multiplier" and it took me a while to grok, but eventually it made sense to me. Sometimes the 10x engineer isn't just cranking out 10x the code, but rather they make the engineers around them that much better, more productive, etc.

Though, admittedly, not really working has become so normal, it can be problem to actually do work in engineering orgs. At my one post-college job, I kept getting told to "slow down" and "take it easy" by older directors.

Bloated orgs seem to be afraid of actually being productive. That's what happens when there's too much middle management. ICs are weighed down with BS processes. Middle managers have to come up with things to justify their existence. It's sad, really.