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walrushunter ◴[] No.42154141[source]
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.

Our engineers are fucking morons. And this guy was the dumbest of the bunch. If you think Netflix hires top tier talent, you don't know Netflix.

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wordofx ◴[] No.42154215[source]
None of the Fortune 500 companies hire top talent. They have a few good people but 98% of the engineers are average at best. Over paid.
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1. qingcharles ◴[] No.42159004[source]
This is every dev house I've worked at. For most people (mostly not the ones on HN), coding is a 9-5 job. No ambition. Just lines of code. Go home. I don't know there is anything particularly wrong with that.

You just have to accept most staff at any corporation are simply just average. There has to be an average for there to be better and worse.