| > It’s ridiculous to think the world’s best companies are just wasting money on “average grade labor”. Hah! By now, most people have worked with quite poor-to-mediocre colleague who have either: * grinded Leetcode and wormed through the pipeline to an overpaid gig at FAANG or a Big Four firm, or * came into their current position with years of FAANG/BigFour on their resume Everybody beyond theor first few starry eyed years in the industry knows better than that. Those companies don't have time and resources to develop earnest meritocracy, nor do they have an actual need to do so, since the overwhelming majority of what they need done is still just "average" (or less) white collar grunt work. They have a pipeline to hire lots of good-enough people as mechanically as possible, because they're huge organizations with a lot of seats to fill. I'm not saying that H1B's need be -- or are -- any worse than domestic hires, but lets not glamorize either one as the haven for meritocracy. While some of the best talent in the world does work at each, these are ultimately high-volume meat griding code/deck factories, not artisan workshops. |
The overwhelming commonality is class. They get people from sophisticated backgrounds who have aspirations and status.
And I think that has value in that employees act in generally trustworthy, and orderly manner, and cultivate tastes and interests that appeal to other people with money.
The exceptional programmer genius with mild Asperger’s from unknown background also exist. It’s just really rare and they kind of don’t fit in.
There just isn’t a pipeline for finding and recruiting those types, and there is for upper middle class kids.