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> I'm an engineering manager at a Fortune 500 company. The dumbest engineer on our team left for Netflix. He got a pay raise too.

Apparently he was smart enough to get away from the Fortune 500 company he worked at, reporting to yourself, and "got a pay raise too."

> Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch.

See above.

> If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.

Maybe you don't know the talent within your own organization. Which is entirely understandable given your proclamation:

  Our engineers are fucking morons.

Then again, maybe this person who left your organization is accurately described as such, which really says more about the Fortune 500 company employing him and presumably continues to employ yourself.

IOW, either the guy left to get out from under an EM who says he is a "fucking moron" or he actually is a "fucking moron" and you failed as a manager to elevate his skills/performance to a satisfactory level.