I find posts like this disheartening. I'm sure this strategy works great for the upper echelon of developers and quite possibly the vast majority of self-select

I find posts like this disheartening. I'm sure this strategy works great for the upper echelon of developers and quite possibly the vast majority of self-selected readers of this very site. But there are many companies and developers that are way down the bell curve that probably could not survive in this type of environment. I wish more posts would take into account more factors like sub-optimal talent or office politics.