Omg this is so true, I had 3 engineers which supposed to work on component. It took me almost a day to explain context, requirements and how work is split. Two of them were busy with other work. One did their part. After reviewing I realized they still lack understanding and need to rework what was done.I made an experiment and implemented whole thing myself. Since coordination part was eliminated it took me 3 times less than initially estimated.
Idk which market you are in. In mine no one cares about your project. Most of companies don’t do innovation. Most of real life projects I saw just moves data around. When I interview people all I care about is knowledge of tech stack and what I call “analytical thinking”.