Top engineers focus on building the right product for users, not perfect code. They unblock teammates by sharing information fast and handling dependencies. They review code quickly so context stays fresh and the team ships faster.
There are many ways that best engineers are helping others. The first one is they ensure that the team is building the right things. They understand that everything that we make, everything that we build at the end of the day will be used by our users. And building the right things is a lot more important than building the things right. The second one is they're focusing on unblocking others. As soon as they see someone is being blocked by something, someone is not being able to progress, they will do their best to resolve it as soon as possible. That could either be some missing information, alignment with another team, or just help and support that colleague with the implementation. The third one is they do code reviews swiftly. The more time passes when a PR is open, the less context both the author and the reviewer still have. They understand how important it is to move quickly when the context is still fresh. They don't leave PRs to stale. The faster we can merge PRs, the more productive the whole team is. The benefits are immense.
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