It's like how every driver thinks they're above average. Math says that no go. You don't need the best engineers. You need capable ones.
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Very few companies are truly at the cutting edge in 100% of their engineering efforts. The pace of tech redevelopment makes this impractical
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Old tech exists. Bad codebases exist. Bad codebases more likely to exist when the 10x developers moved fast and broke things!
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If your work is maintenance, bug fixing, feature additions, documentation, capable engineers outperform rockstars. Hire them!
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And then when you've hired them, allow them to rotate into rockstar roles. Don't stick them on code-cleanup duty and expect them to grow.
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And the weird obsession with "best" as if we're just ranked 0 to N. Insultingly simplifies the complexities of our trade.
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building a team isn't about the best people, its about the combinations and relationships between them.
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@noahsussman given that almost every single company claims that they hire most talented people - everyone is a genius -
the idea that success depends mostly on talent is one of the worst American myths IMO
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you mean “American dream”?
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oh yeah I remember that. I grew up in the ruins of that, actually.
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seriously tho I'll never ever forget the day I realized I'd never be as wealthy as my parents. I think I was 14.
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I was born in USSR. And then it got infected by “american dream” and as result we have some kind of nepotism :)
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sorry about that American Dream thing. If it helps no one in America buys it any more.
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nah, I just moved to another socialist state :)
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yep, Lake Wobegon. ( And then HR insists everyone gets ranked on a bell curve annually, showing they don't believe it. )
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