Blind is an alternate reality and a fraction of the market. A lot of people on Blind completely misrepresent themselves and have either worked really hard to get there or are just skilled. Sure some paper chase but using Blind as a gauge of anything is a mistake.

What Blind shows is that for a portion of the population TC is just a game. Sure they have "skills" but a lot of those skills are grinding leetcode, creating referral networks, and otherwise becoming skilled at getting hired and surviving in a large FAANG.

In my experience leetcode has surprisingly low correlation with programming ability and most definitely software engineering.

It's not just Blind either. I've been surprised how many young people aspire to "work at a FAANG" as a goal, and software is just a convenient way to get there.

I don't think the issue is all on the engineers. Empire building at big tech companies is how we get to a place where some engineer can work 5-10 hours per week doing essentially nothing of value. The entire management track is set up to promote people who have X number of reports under them. A manager who makes 1b in revenue with a team of 10 will be passed up for a promotion over a team of 50 that makes 100m but looks busy.

The "conspiracy" in that case is poor management and oversight, not slacker devs. One of the (many) aspects of this that Elon has not grasped.

the whole thing really does feel like when VW tried to blame engineers for their emissions scandal. Engineers do not set hiring goals or vision for the company. They are not responsible for coming up with features. Yet they are getting 100% of the blame right now.

This is really about two things. 1) Twitter can't afford the debt burdens Elon put on them and 2) Elon really resents being forced to buy a company he does not want and is sticking it to people in the most asinine way possible.

Why? One of my projects I saved ~14mil in one year. Youd break even on my employment after 28 years

I'd suggest the problem there is reading Blind uncritically. There's at least as many trolls as serious posters

TC please

666k/yr, 4.20 years of experience