Zach works in the Bay and did a long stint at Github. "Average" in either of those contexts is severely graded on the curve. Average for a much larger company,

Zach works in the Bay and did a long stint at Github. "Average" in either of those contexts is severely graded on the curve. Average for a much larger company, or average in say.. the US, or San Diego... is saying a very different thing. There's a huge gap between actually mediocre and say, @antirez. I only took the article as a suggestion that your expectations and ideas around who to hire be better tuned to your reality. There's an obvious dissonance between the number of companies saying they only hire the best, and the ceiling of available "bests".