We are a spectrum of jobs, not just one
It helps to read her previous post on the topic to understand her point. She complained about being accused of focusing too much on problems of scale as an ex-Google&#x2F;FB engineer. And she suggests her colleagues don’t have the engineering chops or desire to dig deeply into a problem the way she does. I don’t think the author understands her colleagues motivations. It may be the case that some of them are “vendorops” coders but I suspect it’s far more likely that at a company with resources like FB or Google, which is to say near infinite resources, you can dig into such problems regularly. At a smaller company such technical deep dives may be intellectually gratifying for the coder but may not be worth the limited resources of the people who pay you. And you literally need to grab some off the shelf libraries and code on the company’s domain problem to save time &amp; money.