Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting
by tudelo on Saturday November 14, 2020 @12:56PM
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Yeah, that's something that I have been a bit confused on too. People talk about how hard it is and the "prestige", but there are 20k+ other engineers who did the same thing (at your company alone!). It's really not all that impressive.
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Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting
by lotsofpulp on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:01PM
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The relevant metric would be the ratio of how many got the position to how many wanted it.
Re:The Prestige Trap: finance, big tech, and consulting
by centimeter on Sunday November 15, 2020 @02:21PM
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Not really - that would inflate how impressive it is, because the bottom, say, 80% of the talent pool applies to avg 100 companies whereas the top 20% applies to avg 5 companies, so the number of talented applicants to a given company is very small. Just because you hire top 1% of people who apply to your company doesn't mean you hire top 1% of devs (even if your company is getting the best average applicants).