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I agree, at least the one FAANG company I worked at didn't hire like it want experienced, well-rounded people. Instead it hired a bunch of "brilliant in a vacuum" type people who proceeded to do brilliant-in-a-vacuum things create impressive projects that ultimately were far inferior to the industry norm because those projects never had a input from designers, customer support, the interoperability/standardization of the best-in-industry tools that were out there.

So ultimately I think it was largely to their detriment -- they reinvented everything and by and large I'd say most of what they built in-house was inferior to the industry-norm.