Comment by beebmam
3 years ago
There's nothing elite about being a programmer at any of the big tech companies. It's software engineering and design. It's the same everywhere, just different problem domains.
I've worked with some of the highest ranking people in multiple large tech companies. The truth is there is no "elite". CTOs of the biggest companies in the world are just like you and me.
>There's nothing elite about being a programmer at any of the big tech companies. It's software engineering and design. It's the same everywhere
I just can't agree with this. I have worked with tons of companies and generally, the "sweet-spot" is new mid-sized firms. There is a considerable difference in quality, on almost every metric when working with a bad firm. I've worked with a Fortune 10 company and it was one of the worst applications of "software and design" I've ever seen.
1000 layers of bureaucracy and relatively bad salaries. I'm not looking to speak ill of anyone but we shouldn't pretend you can hire an army of top notch SDEs for bottom of the barrel pay.
The result is a mess.
>I've worked with some of the highest ranking people in multiple large tech companies. The truth is there is no "elite". CTOs of the biggest companies in the world are just like you and me.
I can certainly agree with this in a sense. Everyone makes mistakes. Nobody is "genius" like you see in movies. However, there is a difference in skill and experience (save nepotism or pure luck). If you want to say we all have the same potential, I 100% agree. As it stands though, if you took the "average" developer and I mean truly the _average_, not skewed by personal experience, the average FAANG dev is going to be "better."
I mean, look at how many programmers can't fizzbuzz.