You miss the point of the article. Yegor doesn't want to be put on a team using technology completely orthogonal to his expertise. He isn't interested in spen

You miss the point of the article. Yegor doesn't want to be put on a team using technology completely orthogonal to his expertise. He isn't interested in spending 3-5 hours per week for a few months to cram on algorithms study so he can use it once on his interview day. Many other companies hire by role. There is no ambiguity in where a software developer will end up working on. Facebook and Google use centralized hiring. Yegor's point is that this uncertainty regarding team placement is a strategic disadvantage. Despite what you might think, Object Oriented Design isn't going away anytime soon. There is no need for Facebook or Google to prematurely optimize away the risk of an obsolete engineer at the expense of rejecting domain experts for an important project.