I think it’s a good lesson for people picking companies. In the honeymoon phase of tech, the mythology created was that these elite startups have the type of cu

I think it’s a good lesson for people picking companies. In the honeymoon phase of tech, the mythology created was that these elite startups have the type of culture where the boss is a revolutionary, you pick your own hours, beer and food, company outings, meaningful work, prestige, unlimited vacation, etc. Well the truth is when you walk into a company that hires people for a quarter million dollars at scale, you are truly a number on a spreadsheet. The only way you can cut budget on 500 engineers at that price is not by firing Bob the underperformer, but instead 1/5 or 2/5 of that entire staff. It should make you wonder what is that leetcode for? You are not that important or expensive in the backroom of some enterprise or medium sized business to be slashed like that. But when you are part of a 50 million dollar budget, bet your ass you have a 50/50 chance of being part of that 25 million the company suddenly wants to save. The underperformer stuff has nothing to do with it.