I agree with this, but the article feels like it's talking about a world that no longer exists (or is rapidly ceasing to exist). Questions like "should salaried engineers focus on code quality at the expense of business goals" are a ZIRP phenomenon, i.e. relevant at a time when companies were hiring engineers just to prevent competitors from hiring them and when graduating from a boot camp was all it took to land a junior SWE role. Now that the engineering job market is, alas, looking a lot like other job markets, this feels like it's from a different reality.
You’ll be amazed at what goes on in some of these multi billion dollar companies. Why do you think the mass tech layoff happened? There are still a ton of coasters in large companies that didn’t get affected by the last layoff spree but are responsible for the next one.
