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>>zuhaye+(OP)
Sam Altman said something to the effect of 'OpenAI has the highest talent density of any company'.

OpenAI is modest in employee count and extreme in employee talent, with its employees rewarded commensurately.

>>nomilk+36
Talent is not universal though. A great product/team/workplace can turn unmotivated middling knowledge people into heroes. Not only is massively more worth to raise talent in-house, heterogenous teams are way more healthy. Early Googlers wrote litanies on this.

They can pay it, it sounds good for investors/general public, but if you take away the brand/hype fapping on "we only have the best" would sounds like a red flag to an experienced engineer.