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> no engineer worth their salt will be spending a material amount of time working at an organization that they don't believe utilizes their talents well So is

• kidgorgeous 4y ago
  Yes. First rate engineers are designing rockets at Space-X
• allgreed 4y ago
  I think believes is the key here. There are definitely people who believe that if they can work on complex graph colouring problem in a real-time processing scenario and the interruptions are minimal - then indeed their talent is utilised well. And I can imagine such a scenario happening at Google in advertising department/division/tribe .
  • jb3689 4y ago
    There are plenty of critical, unglamorous jobs which need to be done. It’s not unreasonable for an engineer to value high six figure/seven figure salaries over a feeling of work fulfillment and skill utilization
• dilyevsky 4y ago
  In my time Ads org had some pretty interesting engineering challenges, relatively fast promotion track and good pay
• walls 4y ago
  Just look at the state of almost every google project.