Reddit Experience · Mar 2026

I work in insurance. Superb talent are applying to our open roles. Have never seen this before

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Hey all, We actually have open SWE positions. And our applicants? Ex-FAANG. I’ve never seen this before in my entire career. Usually we get bottom talent, because who wants to do insurance. Well now,

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Hey all, We actually have open SWE positions. And our applicants? Ex-FAANG. I’ve never seen this before in my entire career. Usually we get bottom talent, because who wants to do insurance. Well now, we are getting: LOTS of former Amazon. Former Meta. Former Microsoft. While it’s cool to get engineers who can solve leetcode hard and can solve hard problems, this makes me think of how bad this industry must be right now for this level of talent to apply to insurance…

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