> All FAANG and other smart companies hire at better than 50% at the role/level in order to constantly evolve. Do you mean that they keep hiring people better

> All FAANG and other smart companies hire at better than 50% at the role/level in order to constantly evolve. Do you mean that they keep hiring people better than 50% of the current people in that role/level? That's not my impression from Big Tech. All the chatter I hear is that, until very recently, they kept hiring more and more people, and over time have been getting lower capability, and more towards worker grunt drones. (Though I've often heard that the better people already at the company couldn't pass or do as well at the Leetcode-like interview metrics performance as the current candidates often do, because they have huge masses of people training for the metrics specifically.) Have I heard wrong, or do I misunderstand?