I am completely entrenched in the Silicon Valley culture. I live within an hour drive of Meta, Google, Apple, and LinkedIn HQ. All my friends are also coders at high profile companies. I also went to Stanford lol
I'm just the gal that does the scut feature implementation coding work for the ML researchers, I'm not qualified to answer your question unfortunately.
damn it, I wish they would leave things like this up. This is the slop that makes me feel alive.
Here's some quotes:
https://hexbear.net/post/246860/comment/3173989