> There are kids in their 20s getting burned out at Amazon who'd be able to singlehandedly revolutionize the engineering processes at most normal companies in the world.

You'd have to believe that talent and compensation are actually well-correlated and I'm pretty sure it's tenuous at best.

Yeah, the kids coming out of top schools and crushing their LeetCode interviews are probably smarter on average, but it's not like that necessarily translates to the sort of skills or behaviors that can revolutionize business practices.