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Re:How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Int... by Arubis on Thursday September 19, 2024 @11:45PM (#41598613)
They’re not, but they are shy about defying their own regulations around pay scales. The real money in defense is in private contracting.
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Re:How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Int... by dgfitz on Friday September 20, 2024 @12:04AM (#41598705)
This is accurate. Imagine if NSA paid FAANG people FAANG salaries how different the world might be.
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Re:How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Int... by knowaveragejoe on Friday September 20, 2024 @12:13AM (#41598737)
The NSA does pay FAANG people FAANG salaries. It's just through private contractors, many of which you've never heard of.
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Re:How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Int... by dgfitz on Friday September 20, 2024 @12:38AM (#41598834)
Many of which you’ve never heard of.

Have you? Is this just public information I didn’t see? Or are starting a conversation with an impossible premise?

I also wouldn’t make assumptions.

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Re:How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Int... by TechDebtDevin on Friday September 20, 2024 @12:48AM (#41598899)
https://www.nsa.gov/business/programs/
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Re:How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Int... by knowaveragejoe on Friday September 20, 2024 @12:53AM (#41598922)
That's the "royal you", not you individually.

If you go looking around on linkedin or crunchbase, you'll find numerous 10-50 employee defense contractors. Having known a few individuals employed this way, I would rank them as smart, capable, highly technical and easily capable of working at FAANG. They're getting comparable compensation/benefits with far less stress, and probably work on more interesting problems than the average Googler.

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Re:How We Found Bin Laden: The Basics of Foreign Signals Int... by Onavo on Friday September 20, 2024 @04:32AM (#41599965)
Some of L3's subsidiaries definitely recruit from HN
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