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> It perpetuates the myth that there's something really special about Silicon Valley engineers Does this myth still have much traction? If anything, my genera
by rootusrootus 5y ago
> It perpetuates the myth that there's something really special about Silicon Valley engineers
Does this myth still have much traction? If anything, my general regard for engineers in the bay area has steadily declined in the last few years. There are so many really worthless folks who have only figured out how look like they have a clue, but go any deeper and they flail. I know I'm painting with a broad brush, and that's not fair, but most of the great engineers I work with are at various other places around the country, not California.
- kieselguhr_kid 5y agoPersonally, as a (now relocated) Bay Area native, I agree. Over, I think there's still a lot of prestige for large Silicon Valley firms, even if some of the gloss has justifiably started to fade. This article certainly assumes that myth is still in place.
- kjeetgill 5y agoHey, it's not our fault! Where else are posers gonna flock to to pose? I swear, even with all the remote work, more than 95%* of the people that worked here 5 years ago still do. We live here. * made up statistic.
- rootusrootus 5y agoI realize I wasn't being very nice, and I apologize for that. I'm quite sure there are plenty of very smart people who live in the bay area and do great work. With such a high concentration of engineers it makes sense plenty will suck, too. My experience is biased, of course. My company has offices all over the country and a couple years ago opened a new office in SF, and I'm 93.4% sure we don't exactly pay FAANG-competitive salaries there, which affects the quality of who we can recruit there. It's kinda like how we hire engineers in Hyderabad for 1/5 the US rate and then wonder why we more often than not get substandard performance.
- kjeetgill 5y ago> I realize I wasn't being very nice, and I apologize for that. No worries at all: I agree with you. More then just salaries, there's definitely a glut of people chasing the gold rush. More power to 'em (I guess) but it is a bummer for the rest of us.
- emerged 5y agoI know a ton of engineers. Of them all, those working FAANG are profoundly less skilled than the others. It’s impossible to miss its so obvious. Maybe my social network is an outlier, but I really really doubt it.
- b20000 5y agowhy is this downvoted?
- kieselguhr_kid 5y agoFragile FAANG-ers
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoWell I'm not a FAANG-er and I didn't downvote, but it seems weird that the ones at FAANG would be so obviously less skilled than the others, It would be believable that they were the same skill level but otherwise seems weird. Unless of course the weighting of his groups is off somehow, which should have been noted. Actually it doesn't seem like the statement was very informative.
- emerged 5y agoI mean. It was a statement of fact, you can believe it or not. The engineers I know who went into FAANG (half dozen different people) are literally the worst engineers I worked with. They have no scruples and play politics.
- unmole 5y agoBecause it's a just-so anecdote?