"Not enough talent" means "not enough talent for your shitty pay and/or horrible work conditions". I spent my first ~5 years at Google working in C++. Google d

"Not enough talent" means "not enough talent for your shitty pay and/or horrible work conditions". I spent my first ~5 years at Google working in C++. Google didn't seem to have a problem finding enough C++ folks whose C++ skill is basically "writes compilers and maintains a template library as a hobby" or "can explain a garbled stack trace in a crash dump". Also folks without prior C++ experience did reach this level while working there.