I love meeting people from other cultures and backgrounds and experiences. It’s great to get to know each other. I perceive you to be one of those people for me.
See, in my travels, weak engineers usually have no/little say in anything of import, except the yucky boring maths stuff others don’t want to/can’t do. Hiring a personality is something that our management types love to get involved in. They hire for all the wrong reasons. They retain people for all of the wrong reasons. They primitive for all the wrong reasons. We have “hiring as a service” institution here known often as HR that manages to meddle with things.
It’s not that any of these bodies hire weak or strong engineers for any malicious purpose (oceans razor ya know), it’s just completely arbitrary for us and you kind of just learn to put op with and cope with the chaos.
Where you’re from, is there a sort of settling function where after a while, all the weak engineers have cohired all of the week engineers? Do the strong engineers hire the other strong engineers?