Originally Posted by Unregistered

same here, was in some public sector agencies and faang (not pure SWE). would say that GovTech is by far the most technical ones **among all the public sector agencies** based on my exp. but even within GovTech there are the more "technical" departments eg. OGP, GDS

for TAP: the SWEs I interacted with are very technically competent, however am not sure if they do manage vendors. at least in my previous team, we built everything in-house... but ymmv