No. We laugh at this stuff. All sorts of internal memes about "hiring the best engineers in the world to move protobufs around."

There are definitely personalities around the company who think of themselves this way, but certainly not the majority. I think this kind of language in fact hurts us, because it creates a pronounced impostor syndrome around us, as we all _know_ we're mere mortals.

The reality of a SWE job at any BigCorp is quite mundane, and is more politics than coding most of the time.

Honestly our interview process should be more testing people how to write and comment on design docs and fill out a performance review, because that's what they seem to want the most out of us.

EDIT: Oh, also filtering through 2 pages of new emails, mostly automated, to find the two things that are relevant to your job.