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by wordofx 587 days ago
None of the Fortune 500 companies hire top talent. They have a few good people but 98% of the engineers are average at best. Over paid.
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This is every dev house I've worked at. For most people (mostly not the ones on HN), coding is a 9-5 job. No ambition. Just lines of code. Go home. I don't know there is anything particularly wrong with that.

You just have to accept most staff at any corporation are simply just average. There has to be an average for there to be better and worse.