> Another is finding those developers roles that suit them better. Maybe that's some other aspect of the software pipeline like QA or testing ...

As a QA professional, I regret greatly that HN's rules restrain me from giving your post the appropriately pithy response it deserves.

QA is not your dumping ground for failed devs; we do not want them either. If they couldn't hack it as a SDE, they are certainly not going to be able to hack it as a SDET either.