Keep in mind “great engineer” will be a subjective term that means different things to everyone. To Meta, it might mean cream of the crop, $1m+ engineer. To ea

Keep in mind “great engineer” will be a subjective term that means different things to everyone. To Meta, it might mean cream of the crop, $1m+ engineer. To early Google, it might mean Stanford grad with deep CS knowledge. To a no-name startup, it might mean someone who accepts the job who takes initiative and knows how to crank out ugly code quickly on AWS and makes good prioritization decisions.