> The transferrable and useful skills one gets out of someone trained in a FAANG is the ability to produce well explained tested well documented code incrementally and in a respectful and well discussed code review process.
That’s why I mentioned that their development skills were actually quite good.
The issue was that they were playing a full-time workplace game of not only self-promotion, but of elevating themselves over peers.
This would manifest as things like campaigning for total rewrites of other people’s code because they all but refused to participate in anyone else’s projects. We couldn’t get them to do anything unless they thought it was going to be a good line item on their resume.
That’s why I mentioned that their development skills were actually quite good.
The issue was that they were playing a full-time workplace game of not only self-promotion, but of elevating themselves over peers.
This would manifest as things like campaigning for total rewrites of other people’s code because they all but refused to participate in anyone else’s projects. We couldn’t get them to do anything unless they thought it was going to be a good line item on their resume.