Israeli here. Although I can't comment on 8200 since I didn't serve there, I did work with a lot of people who did. I didn't find them to have exceptional skill

Israeli here. Although I can't comment on 8200 since I didn't serve there, I did work with a lot of people who did. I didn't find them to have exceptional skills when it comes to coding or engineering - it's mostly hype and marketing that is designed to glorify the division. I also have a slight issue with the article, since it claims thousands of jobs were slashed in the US - yet Israel only has about 300k people working in "high-tech", as it's called over there, with less than 10% of those in software engineering, AND there's usually a severe shortage of those (multiple job openings for every engineer).