alt Hacker News>>Most likely the opposite: Their new job brought them into a company surrounded by high performers who got their by working hard.
This is just another edition of Google "we only hire the best" with nothing to show for it for 20 years. Were these the high performers, who created the disaster called ChatGPT Work ?
>This is just another edition of Google "we only hire the best" with nothing to show for it for 20 years.
Google was "hiring the best" not because they needed those new hiries to build something to show for, they were hiring them to deprive their competitors of talent using their unlimited ad revenue warchest.
The entire tech scene during the ZIRP era, even more so during COvid, was just adult daycare for smart people, a giant Fugazi that came crashing down. And if the AI bubble pops, it will crash even harder.