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by paladin314159 2985 days ago
I don't know that you need the "dysfunctional" qualification to that statement.

It probably suffers from the usual problem: people want to work at a place that is too good for them (whatever that actually means) and companies want to hire people that are too good for them (again, whatever that means).

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And it gets deeper too. From both ends. Nobody knows what they're doing here...

Most mediocre devs overestimate their abilities - while many of the truely top devs severely under estimate themselves.

The recruitment process/chain at many companies severely overestimates their desirability as an employer ("If selected, you'll be given the privilege of working at this traditional corporate bank, working on 6 year old Windows desktop development machines, under overpaid architecture astronauts who's suits cost more than your weekly take-home, on strictly waterfall projects. But we'll still expect you to be in the office at 9am for the mandatory "Agile Standup"!!!)