[codingdave]

Lets look at the stats - there are 26.2 million devs in the world, so hiring the top 1% means you hire one of the 260,000 top people in the world. That isn't a small number. Especially if you twist your criteria for what it means to be a "top" developer, as it is an inherently subjective label. I'm sure just about any company could create criteria to make it true, including something as simple as "We deliberately reject 99 of out 100 resumes."

So I don't put much stock in claims that that, and definitely don't think fitting into that label is a strong career goal.