> Weak engineers are often surprisingly active in work-related discussions. Hits the nail on the head. I don't think it's an engineers fault though. If the co

> Weak engineers are often surprisingly active in work-related discussions. Hits the nail on the head. I don't think it's an engineers fault though. If the company culture rewards buzzwords over code and endless meetings over real progress this kind of behavior becomes inevitable. When shipping features takes a back seat to writing "thought leadership" blog posts or chasing pointless metrics, people adapt to survive in that environment. It's not about bad engineers, it's about a system that incentivizes all the wrong things.