I think my comment in this link applies to your comment as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16711642

Is this person not allowed to put his own thoughts down on his own personal website? It's not like he's getting on CNN and preaching.

My comment was mostly in regards to the snobbiness of the "top tier" aspect. The person is free to explain his decision to leaving a job of course, but the bragging is just sad.

I think that's fair. Either way people don't need to be so unnecessarily harsh. It was pretty clear OP didn't intend anything particularly harmful. It was probably just naivety or a lack of self-awareness...but people are talking in here about it as if it were pure evil.