I find it's the exact opposite in FAANG: hiring people who care too much, but in directions not aligned with delivering value. If you hire the best in a narrow

I find it's the exact opposite in FAANG: hiring people who care too much, but in directions not aligned with delivering value. If you hire the best in a narrow sense, you get people who find problems where others wouldn't. That's fine in theory but it becomes downright crippling if these people don't understand where their output falls in terms of the final value delivered to customers. You end up with organizations where precious little ships, and it's usually a crappy product because every team was convinced their little nugget needed to be perfect, and eventually market forces forced them to shove all their half-polished nuggets into a ball of filth. Normally managers are supposed to be a counter for that, but at engineering driven orgs they just get sucked into the games too.