Comment by to11mtm

> It turns out people are universally entities comprised of sloppy, error-prone wetware.

The line from Agent K in 'Men In Black' comes to mind here.

More jobs than not, I left with at least one 3+ month old PR of changes for stability I was 'not allowed to merge because we didn't have the bandwidth to regression (or do cross-ecosystem-update-on-lib)'. Yes I made sure to explain to my colleagues why I did them and why I was mentioning them before I left.

Most eventually got applied.

> (I've been rejected after round 1 of Google code screens 3 times, though have been hired to other FAANG-like companies). Sheesh.

I've found that the companies that hire based on quality-of-bullshitting sometimes pay more, but are far less satisfying than companies that hire on quality-of-language-lawyering (i.e. you understand the caveats of a given solution rather than sugar coating them).