"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt I don't even know if that quote is true. I suppose

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt I don't even know if that quote is true. I suppose it doesn't matter. I'd propose in software development the bottom tier is languages and frameworks, mid tier is paradigms, and top tier is algos architecture and debugging war stories. Plenty of room for alternate interpretations. I'd accept an argument that algos or debugging are mere mid-tier. Anyway the world is full of ditches that need digging so don't be surprised if when you interview, you interview at a ditch digging company, and furthermore they have a laser like focus on shoveling, when you thought you'd be talking about civil engineering finite element analysis of bridge girders. Well, they shovel, thats what they do, best you find out now rather than after starting work there. And there's nothing wrong with the world being full of diggable ditches, other than the general population on average being massively too intelligent, over educated, and over experienced to spend their lives digging ditches, and the world having a distinct shortage of bridge girders needing a finite element analysis vs the number of people who can do it.