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Yeah, that's fair, though I still think that's going to selection-bias towards employees who can't really find work elsewhere. I don't know about Microsoft but

Yeah, that's fair, though I still think that's going to selection-bias towards employees who can't really find work elsewhere. I don't know about Microsoft but certainly at Apple there were plenty of people who were pretty mediocre engineers...I certainly was the last 6-8 months I was there because I hated it so much and realized they probably wouldn't fire me.

nineplay 4y ago
My cynical hot-take is that big companies don't need great engineers, they need engineers who are good enough to complete the tickets their given and move on to the next one. The great engineers I've known came up with innovative ideas that were briefly admired and then quickly squashed. A few good architects can make a difference, but the army of SWEs are just there to keep the roads rolling.