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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by aswanson on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:30PM (#18944680)
Reminds me of the old phrase, re: academia: "The competition is so high because the stakes are so low." There is something really weird, at least to me, in working so extraordinarily hard to prove yourself worthy of serving someone/some company. But that's just me.
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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by BigFish12 on Friday January 18, 2019 @10:00PM (#18945053)
Money and prestige my friend.
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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by aswanson on Saturday January 19, 2019 @04:24PM (#18949273)
Money, I can understand. Under bayesian analysis, your better off going into medical studies, though. Prestige...well... In my dads day, working at IBM would've earned great prestige. On graduation day for me, working at Microsoft would have earned prestige the same year Google incorporated. So...fuck prestige.
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