People have been saying that tech hiring is broken over and over for a decade now but nothing was done about it. Hiring processes are still rooted in the "If you can solve this tricky textbook problem, you're smart" ideology which is completely wrong because it commoditizes a very narrow type of intelligence which is not related to value creation.
Unfortunately it's too late to fix that problem now. If a top value-creating developer was hired by one of these companies today, their approach and thinking style would be fundamentally incompatible with most of the other people who work in the company today (due to the legacy of bad hiring). Moreover, their boss would probably be one of those textbook and process-oriented people who is completely detached from actual value creation; working under such people is deeply depressing for value creators who have developed a laser-focus "eye on the prize" and "simplest is best" mentality from years working in harsh startup environments.
I would argue that the "simplest is best" mindset is good at any scale but the corporate hiring process has systematically weeded those people out.
That's why corporate monopolies are harmful for society, some entrepreneurial people just can't fit in at the bottom of large corporate hierarchies but yet they are often left without any alternatives.
Unfortunately it's too late to fix that problem now. If a top value-creating developer was hired by one of these companies today, their approach and thinking style would be fundamentally incompatible with most of the other people who work in the company today (due to the legacy of bad hiring). Moreover, their boss would probably be one of those textbook and process-oriented people who is completely detached from actual value creation; working under such people is deeply depressing for value creators who have developed a laser-focus "eye on the prize" and "simplest is best" mentality from years working in harsh startup environments.
I would argue that the "simplest is best" mindset is good at any scale but the corporate hiring process has systematically weeded those people out.
That's why corporate monopolies are harmful for society, some entrepreneurial people just can't fit in at the bottom of large corporate hierarchies but yet they are often left without any alternatives.