They build teams in their own broken image of what a good programmer should be, and then get to manager and director and mould entire companies the same way.
They become hotbeds of intellectually rich but functionally and productively inept individuals who value spending resources indulging in esoteric side quests instead of driving businesses forwards in ways that are 'just sustainable enough'.
I've always been on the periphery of FAANG 'level' situations trying to focus on the surface where tech and humans meet and as the 3 decades of my career have gone on, software engineering has become more and more ludicrous and bubble like to the point where it, and the developers working on it, are now just the annoyance between me and my goals.
They become hotbeds of intellectually rich but functionally and productively inept individuals who value spending resources indulging in esoteric side quests instead of driving businesses forwards in ways that are 'just sustainable enough'.
I've always been on the periphery of FAANG 'level' situations trying to focus on the surface where tech and humans meet and as the 3 decades of my career have gone on, software engineering has become more and more ludicrous and bubble like to the point where it, and the developers working on it, are now just the annoyance between me and my goals.