That's an interesting question, is there an institution or subculture in the world that is more meritocratic than Silicon Valley? If there is, then the author's argument has some merit. If there isn't, then the author is wasting time attacking the one institution that comes the closest to embodying the meritocracy ideal. To what end?
> is there an institution or subculture in the world that is more meritocratic than Silicon Valley?
Obviously professional sport. Especially "one-dimensional" sports like running or swimming. The "best" runners in the world are so named because they consistently run the fastest. There are some qualifiers in terms of who has the time and money to train, and access to coaching, but all in all it's highly meritocratic.
That's an interesting question, is there an institution or subculture in the world that is more meritocratic than Silicon Valley?
Jobs where the individual’s numbers are everything, like sales and trading.
If there isn't, then the author is wasting time attacking the one institution that comes the closest to embodying the meritocracy ideal.
The author makes the mistake of looking at Silicon Valley as a monolithic institution. There are many different aspects to life as a dev.
Having said that, coding ability isn’t >*. Things like culture fit and the ability to work with other people also factor in, unless you go the solo dev route. Also, there are still a lot of idiots getting promoted, like the people that end up populating the tales of The Daily WTF.
