Well you’re assuming that people who know how to game the system and earn money/collect titles are automatically in the top quarter of knowledge workers. I’d ar

Well you’re assuming that people who know how to game the system and earn money/collect titles are automatically in the top quarter of knowledge workers. I’d argue that knowing how to be a good software engineer has nothing to do with being good at interviewing, negotiating, and hopping jobs frequently. The average FAANG tenure says nothing about the quality of those engineers. They might be good coders, but they have no experience with deploying, maintaining, and subsetting code. In other words, the vast majority of the field of engineering.