> "The minimum threshold to get hired for FAANG is ~average talent and the willingness to grind"
> "Some average talent people work for FAANG"
> Thus, somebody who is average can get hired by FAANG
I said absolutely nothing about the skill distribution or histogram of talent across all of FAANG engineering.
Anybody who's worked in the Bay Area has known a number of untalented people who have joined FAANG. That's reality. Believe whatever you want.
That an untalented person can join FAANG does not say anything about the talent of the FAANG engineer on average.
An interview process threshold defines the left tail of the skill distributions of the hires, and tells you nothing about the shape of the distribution beyond that. Though you can likely assume it's normally distributed.
How many ways do I need to slice it for you?