[fpgamlirfanboy]

> well because they have other priorities and responsibilities in life that make it necessary to maintain a strong work ethic.

It's amazing how many people in tech can't imagine that the same people that can grind med school or IB or big4 accounting or white-shoe law somehow can't grind the same way in tech. Newsflash: the majority of people in FAANG are grinders not "passion coders".

Personally I hate this job but I'm very good at it and it was either law school with my 98% LSAT or tech. I picked tech because reading and writing briefs all day seemed somehow worse.

[sublinear]

It's easy to assume you're great especially working under "passion coders" who keep stuff afloat.

Who else would go to bat? Everyone can immediately tell who the grinders are, but you have to hire sometimes anyway.

[fpgamlirfanboy]

> It's easy to assume you're great especially working under "passion coders" who keep stuff afloat.

i work on compilers+hardware so that's the backdrop here.

here's a real hypothetical for you (ie it happened but i'm not going to use specifics): our internal proprietary compiler is spitting out incorrect atomics instructions that deadlock our internal proprietary multi-core DNN accelerator. this incorrect code is downstream of a big, lucrative, customer's (you know which one) LLM model.

now the question: is it the "passion coder" that will solve this or the grinder?