Disappointing. I was hoping it referred to working with someone like this [0].

[0] https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

I see threads elsewhere full of "I joined a FANG hoping to make amazing algorithms and push computer science forward but I'm just building dashboards and changing button colours", so I'm not 100% sure the work content is different.

In 5 years, I'd expect a WITCH engineer to be exposed to and deeply understand many industries and companies. I'd expect them to learn to handle stakeholders as well as code. I'd expect them to be exposed to many different vendors and tech stacks.

But mostly I'd expect them to get really good at making a big impact very quickly, with limited time and people.

When I compare that to a guy getting paid $1 million a year to run a team of 4 people who build youtube revenue dashboards or something, adding one graph a month, I know who would want working on project I cared about.

The WITCH engineer was just unwise enough to be born in India right? Probably went to the top schools there, has an MBA and a masters in compsci... Just... Indian, so worth less for some reason.

That was the purpose of the parent article's assertion, to illustrate that same point.

Come for the ragequit blog post, stay for the fang witch images.

even with the "fixed" URL, this is not what the author meant.

Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, HCL.