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GP didn't say all programmers at the big 4 were like that, just that most of such programmers were at the big 4. These are all huge companies so anecdotal evide

by jghn 11y ago

GP didn't say all programmers at the big 4 were like that, just that most of such programmers were at the big 4. These are all huge companies so anecdotal evidence involving "some programmers" is unlikely to overlap.

pkolaczk 11y ago
Indeed those are huge companies and they probably have more skilled people than the average, but I seriously doubt they have most of the best programmers. Simply the amount of people working there is too small to cover even 1% of the best programmers in the world. And there are plenty of skilled programmers working in places where those huge companies do not have even an office, and there are plenty of programmers not considering working there for various reasons.
- jghn 11y ago
  Agree but they likely have a disproportionate amount of the top 0.01% or whatever extreme number you want to use
- Joky 11y ago
  since you can define the cutoff for "best" as you want, you can say 1% while someone else would say that that cover 10000%...