> If your company has sketchy process and minimal checks on the software quality, of course it naturally follows that they hire bad engineers as well. fortunately, that also opens up an opportunity to be a emergency leader with an eye towards promotion.

AI disease is encouraging "sketchy process and minimal checks on the software quality." QA has been eliminated from my team, and the QA engineers that are left have been declared to be developers now.

Gotta move fast, and I guess making sure the stuff we ship works was "slowing us down."

> a emergency leader with an eye towards promotion

i've gone this route a few times in my career, it's very stressful and involves angry/panicked people and many all nighters. Also, the glory fades fast. would not recommend.

The bigger issue (I find) is that the pipeline for finding those engineers is completely fucked.

Hiring pipelines that tested the wrong thing have existed for years but the problem is magnified 10x when you test for something that weakly correlates with ability at best which an AI can do better than a human.

This is leading to stuff like incompetent junior-level engineers being hired as principals.

>be a emergency leader with an eye towards promotion..

You assume those people haven't already left, been kicked out, or were hired to begin with. We're not in a rational job market right now.