[roguecoder]

A lot of companies aren't trying to hire the "best" programmers. Places like Amazon won't let engineers use highly-skilled techniques anyway.

The high-profile RTO places tend to hire in bulk for programmers that will do as product tells them. Weeding out people who value quality over conformity is a goal.

[senderista]

I work with an Amazon engineer who has been working on storage systems since 1990 (NT kernel) and is an absolute wizard. He could probably write a durable concurrent B-tree in an afternoon.

[Malidir]

Those deemed essential get exceptions!

[philwelch]

> Places like Amazon won't let engineers use highly-skilled techniques anyway.

I’m curious what you mean by this.

[papichulo2023]

Prob need a few dozens to build the frameworks and a few hundreds to glue them to the services that require them.