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Almost none of them could get a job as a software engineer at their own company, if they had to, because they would be completely unqualified.

There are 10 CEO level people mentioned.

Woz could certainly get a job at Apple. He's clearly brilliant and capable.

Larry & Sergey could definitely get jobs at Google. They were PhD CS students at Stanford (how on Earth is that "unqualified" to you?).

Zuckerberg could get a job at Facebook. He obviously wrote a lot of Facebook's early code.

Gates & Allen allegedly didn't do much actual coding themselves but they certainly understood it. I imagine Jobs, Bezos and Jack Ma also understood coding even if they didn't do any themselves. I don't know anything about Ma Huateng.

I doubt any of them could drop in to a high level coding role and be productive, but they could all do intern or junior level stuff. Code isn't that hard that you need to be a special snowflake to do it.

parent onion2k 5 years ago

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