> I had the same experience from the other direction later on.. a team of smart, hard-working coders had been dealing with stability/perf issues for years on so

> I had the same experience from the other direction later on.. a team of smart, hard-working coders had been dealing with stability/perf issues for years on some product. I was able to root cause and straighten all of them out in a couple of weeks, even though this was in an area of software development using a set of tools I'd never touched before. I've done this at a company full of ex-Googlers. Some programmers are simply incompetent, no matter where they've worked.