Are ‘ghost engineers’ real? Seeking Silicon Valley’s least productive coders. A Stanford researcher says data on programmer productivity suggests 14 percent of remote software engineers get ...

A Stanford researcher says his algorithm pinpoints employees who are doing the bare minimum. His research, which hasn't been peer-reviewed, found that about 9.5% of coders were "ghost engineers.' ...

He termed such freeloaders “ghost engineers.” After Denisov-Blanch’s post was viewed nearly 4 million times, some self-professed ghost engineers contacted him.

A Stanford researcher says his algorithm pinpoints employees who are doing the bare minimum. His research, which hasn't been peer-reviewed, found that about 9.5% of coders were "ghost engineers.' ...

The tech industry is rattled by Stanford professor Yegor Denisov-Blanch’s recent assertion that nearly 10% of software engineers are “ghost engineers” who make virtually no contributions to ...

A recent Stanford study reveals that 9.5% of software engineers in tech teams are "ghost engineers"—employees whose contributions don't show measurable impact.

Denisov-Blanch calls these workers "ghost engineers," defined as software engineers who are only 10% as productive or less than their median colleague. His research began as an attempt to find a ...