They get paid optimally. Least amount of work for the most amount of money. Do leetcode for a few months, get max money and do the same dev job as everyone else (possibly even less). This is intelligence in my book. It’s intelligence at smart companies because that’s exactly who they hire. You’d have to be a dumbass to work hard everyday. Pick your battles, let everyone else slave away.

Dumbasses work hard and toast to themselves as ‘hard workers’. Nope, you’re a dumbass. And smart people know it.

If I don’t see someone getting paid optimally (faangers, agile scrum masters, engineering managers), I just assume they are morons.

It’s one of the reasons I have little to no respect for blue collar workers. How dumb do you have to be to not even get bumble fuck easy Communications or Psychology degree and not breeze through a web development bootcamp with a little Adderral and ease into a Project Manager job? You deserve to deliver my food and drive me around in an Uber, you absolutely deserve it.

I’ve seen QA people that click around a website and find broken links and maintain a multi year career. People deserve whatever they have imho. The world literally throws money at you, but somehow they still manage to be Amazon warehouse workers.