Yeah, I feel we are a bit in an inverted world. Startups in my opinion need better engineers as they are in the hard part of making them product while the large companies mostly need people who can follow existing processes and do as they are told. Both types of companies hire the opposite because of economic incentives.
I also agree with your solution, but not sure how practical it is short term. Long term that is probably what will happen.
Large companies also need excellent engineers because novel engineering problems emerge at scale and as a large codebase evolves over the years. You can't really attack those problems by only doing what you're told. If nothing else, someone has to figure out what the plan is.
For sure, but they need a few of those and a lot of average engineers with leadership skills to maintain everything. At least that is what I think having mostly working in very large FAANG's.
The really hard part is in starting new projects, or maybe that is just hard for me.
I also agree with your solution, but not sure how practical it is short term. Long term that is probably what will happen.