u/michaelnovati replied ·
I've seen this kind of thing over and over and the common trends
1. The people don't know how to mentor or teach well despite how good they are
2. The best people get paid millions of dollars a year to work at Meta (literally not an exaggeration) and such and those people don't offer free mentorship on discord no matter how much they want to help people.
3. People who work at FAANG for two years think they can have more impact helping train new engineers, or make more money that way, and they leave their job to help coach people. They don't have enough experience with how the system works to help people but they try hard for a while and give up.
Sorry if these sound negative but all of them involve good intentions. It's just Dunning Kruger combined with a free market.