Serious answer to probably other-than-serious question: caliber of performance is sometimes tied to individual but often more closely tied to individual/environment match, such that hypothetical Abe might be A in some environments but B in others, or Cindy might be A/B @ new gig.https://twitter.com/sophiebits/status/1101006496383393792 …
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"How can someone be an effective software engineer at e.g. Google but be an ineffective software engineer @ a startup?" One way is by their pathway to effectiveness being a really good understanding of the Google organization and how to work it to accomplish goals. A real skill!
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Another way is by delivering mission success at Google (to use a gross generalization: system scaled to the moon, took as long as it takes, doesn't have to be subjectively great because Google gets Google distribution) at company which dies if 1,000 people don't rabidly love it.
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My ambient impression: The best products at AppAmaGooBookSoft are some of the best products in the world. The median product is better engineered than the median startup product by a lot, but qua product, pretty mediocre. (This is one reason they buy product teams so frequently)
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(Very opinionated list on the best products at AppAmaGooBookSoft, sorted per company by "Volume of physical tears I would weep if they went away": the iPhone, core physical e-commerce experience, Gmail (surprisingly, not search), core FaceBook, Excel.)
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For the person who will claw success from *almost* any circumstance, it can feel shocking and personal when in a “bad match” situation, and they’ll often stay way too long trying to debug/fix it.
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You can't debug a situation if you're coding in different languages.
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