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A lot of companies aren't trying to hire the "best" programmers. Places like Amazon won't let engineers use highly-skilled techniques anyway. The high-profile
by roguecoder 2y ago
A lot of companies aren't trying to hire the "best" programmers. Places like Amazon won't let engineers use highly-skilled techniques anyway.
The high-profile RTO places tend to hire in bulk for programmers that will do as product tells them. Weeding out people who value quality over conformity is a goal.
- philwelch 2y ago> Places like Amazon won't let engineers use highly-skilled techniques anyway. I’m curious what you mean by this.
- papichulo2023 2y agoProb need a few dozens to build the frameworks and a few hundreds to glue them to the services that require them.
- senderista 2y agoI work with an Amazon engineer who has been working on storage systems since 1990 (NT kernel) and is an absolute wizard. He could probably write a durable concurrent B-tree in an afternoon.
- Malidir 2y agoThose deemed essential get exceptions!