I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by notyourwork on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:06PM (#18944585)

Which makes sense right? Same reason a military general doesn’t start as a general. Architecture takes experience in the weeds to give a breadth you can leverage as you reason through architecture. Architecture isn’t aslways black and white decision making based on some specs which is where experience can help a ton.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by Aeolun on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:50PM (#18944763)

Generals often start out as lieutenants though (e.g. officer academy drops you in on a higher rank).

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by skh on Friday January 18, 2019 @10:57PM (#18945238)

In the U.S. military this is not true. People graduating from OCS, ROTC, or one of the academies start off at O-1 (2nd Lieutenant).

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by learc83 on Friday January 18, 2019 @11:52PM (#18945398)

What's your disagreement? 1st Lieutenant vs 2nd Lieutenant? Lieutenant is commonly used to refer to both.

Or are you saying that you start of at O-1 and not a higher paygrade? If that's the case, the OP was pointing out that you start off outranking enlisted service members, not that you start out above O-1.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by skh on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:52AM (#18947860)

Well, I misread the comment I responded to. I thought they said that academy graduates don’t start off at lieutenant and start off at a higher rate.

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