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Having had to interview hundreds of candidates during my career I've never understood the infatuation with the Silicon Valley talent pool. The problem with ther

Having had to interview hundreds of candidates during my career I've never understood the infatuation with the Silicon Valley talent pool. The problem with there being enormous piles of what amounts to accountability-free money being handed out on often the flimsiest pretext is that nobody actually has to be all that good at anything to have worked at some impressive sounding places with impressive sounding titles. Certainly there's a lot of talent in SV, but it's not the end-all-be-all of "the best and the brightest" that investors seemed incapable of considering more critically until recently.

shady-lady 8y ago
> nobody actually has to be all that good at anything It seems as long as they can regurgitate grad level algorithms, most other things are non issues. The brightest are people who look at quality of __life__ (that thing you only get one of) & decide that a life where you can actually __live__ (nice* home in nice* area/< 40 min commute/~40hr work week) and then choose to live that life. There absolutely are very bright people there who make 7 figures a year and can do all those nice things. But that's a tiny minority. barring the weather argument, i don't get why people choose SV. Great, you can work with "scale" but that's about it. Unless you're looking for massive funding, why bother? the novelty of moving fast & not mastering a technology so somebody else might get rich loses it's appeal after ~5 years.