[jstx1]

> Many IT companies & startups boast about hiring the best 1% talent. While I believe contrary. I think that any developer can be a better developer with proper training & positive environment.

These two ideas don't contradict each other.

Maybe anyone can be better than they currently are, let's grant you that. Still, there's some distribution of talent with few people being the best at what they do and companies can make the claim (rightly or not) that they hire from the top end of the distribution.

Just because everyone can improve, it doesn't mean that everyone is the same.