they're not necessarily 0.1x programmers. at big companies risks and their impact are disproportionately higher than at startups, which unfortunately causes mos

they're not necessarily 0.1x programmers. at big companies risks and their impact are disproportionately higher than at startups, which unfortunately causes most engineers to be overly cautious. every change is almost non-trivial. it also doesn't help that sometimes even long tenured engineers can't inspire confidence that a change could be safely made. of course there are legitimate cases of 'coasters' but my general experience at bigco with a proper bigco culture is one of people avoiding catastrophe at all cost.