[thanksforthe42]

After working with graduates from "the best university", I doubt it is "the best".

After using "the best" search engine, and finding what I needed on Bing instead, I started doubting it was "the best".

Perception is different than reality. I genuinely wonder if these are "the best", or if these employees were merely the ones willing to move their lives to a new city for a high paying job.

But I'm sure FAANG and FAANG employees would tell you they are the best.

I wonder if they would fall for marketing tricks. Do "the best" fall for marketing tricks?

[vmception]

That conversation can always be reserved elsewhere, right now the greater issue is the incentives of the organization and deployment process.

People act differently in groups than as an individual. The coordination is not solved and is not proclaimed to be the best at these large organizations, no matter what an individual's skillset and competence is.

[908B64B197]

It's all a matter of signal to noise ratio.

> Perception is different than reality. I genuinely wonder if these are "the best", or if these employees were merely the ones willing to move their lives to a new city for a high paying job.

You can always find that one diamond in the rough. It's true there's a selection bias toward folks that are willing to relocate. But I bet the average engineers at Google is much better than at Generic Company Co.

[mitjak]

while i agree with you, there's a lot more going into performance and usability of a product than whether the employees are "the best"