> compared next to the technical leaders / senior engineers at these companies. You feel that way because you actually didn't do anything you consider cool or

> compared next to the technical leaders / senior engineers at these companies. You feel that way because you actually didn't do anything you consider cool or you didn't do anything others consider cool? I did a lot of cool stuff; not really interested if others find that cool or not and certainly, without meeting the perceived 10x engineers you are referring to, I am not going to blindly say I would somehow rank lower as an engineer because I don't work in one of those companies or because I was not in the startup phase of one of those companies (you know, at the time when you didn't have to do those silly tests and the bar or entry to jump to the top rank was lower because it was a startup).