You don't even need to go as esoteric as "good rubik cube solver". My first job was at a physics laboratory as a research assistance. At least some of the peopl

You don't even need to go as esoteric as "good rubik cube solver". My first job was at a physics laboratory as a research assistance. At least some of the people holding physics PhDs from elite institutions (the one I worked in is internationally renowned and a source of many nobel prize winners) are definitely "smarter" (for some definitions thereof) than a lot of people working at FAANG companies earning multiples of their salaries.