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Re:The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new c... by throwaway_bad on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:06PM (#21315328)
It seems kind of asshole to say this but Amazon is considered low-tier at CMU so people don't choose it unless they got rejected from everyone else. =/

I am looking at MIT's salary survey and they have similar ratios: https://capd.mit.edu/sites/default/files/about/files/GSS2017...

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Re:The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new c... by akhilcacharya on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:12PM (#21315383)
> It seems kind of asshole to say this but Amazon is considered low-tier at CMU so people don't choose it unless they got rejected from everyone else. =

Why is that?

Also, MIT's distribution seems very different. Amazon and Facebook are near equal and GM takes a big chunk, which is not what I would have expected. Oracle is also around the same as my undergrad.

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Re:The most successful people are just the luckiest, a new c... by throwaway_bad on Monday October 21, 2019 @02:20PM (#21315481)
You work there so you probably have a better idea than I do but they have a terrible reputation externally: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17062782
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