[ravibhatt]

Interesting discussion here. Excellent post.

If coding is such an art and so important to the industry, why are all people at the top do not have a git hub account to show? They must still be "passionate" about coding, no? Or is it a function of how much money you have?

Facebook worked not because of some guy wrote great, highly maintainable code. It worked because of the idea. Same with others great companies.

If there were these unicorn people who did not write "unmaintainable junk" there would be no security bugs, hacks, leaks etc.

All big companies have recruited "the best" for forever. Can any one of them guarantee a bug free software. They can't. Suddenly, all these passionate people with their github account do not look sexy.

Insisting on a side project is similar to people insisting on TDD and i am sure TDD does not solve the problem of bugs in code.