Which company has the best engineers?
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Any crypto company by definition is going to have the strongest technical engineers
Lmao that is an absurd statement
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I feel this question comes up every few weeks or so.
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If your question can be rephrased as “at which company is the average engineer the best”, here’s my two cents (YOE 5):
I would argue a very well funded startup (unicorn status blah blah whatever you wanna call it). The bottom line is that they operate as lean as possible (often at a loss) while having their engineers take on a lot of responsibility, and they are very often building brand new stuff from the ground up under tight timelines. They also are often forced to need to know a lot more devops / backend stuff regardless of role for the same reasons. Further, it is much harder to scrape by with poor performance because of the exposure, and there are almost always less barriers to getting fired.
I agree with what you say about long tenured eng at start ups knowing a lot, but in my experience they are not often the "best" engineers but best "hackers". Many of these eng build whatever gets the job done but not in a way that supports quality or future scalability.
My $0.02: I don't think there is a specific industry or maturity level company that has thr best, its more the best eng all share specific qualities of being able to mentor, design, and have high productivity. I have seen them primarily in the BI, Data space and have tended to be on platform or core infra teams.