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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by crassus on Sunday March 23, 2014 @11:41PM (#7456556)
The brilliant Ivy League kids that go into finance are still going into finance. The pay after 3 or 4 years of experience is way better than in the software industry.

When Harvard grads start choosing Google over Goldman Sachs, I'll believe in the engineering shortage. Now excuse me while I return to my 10 hour Craigslist odyssey to find an affordable Bay Area apartment...

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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by taude on Monday March 24, 2014 @08:33AM (#7457819)
There's not nearly as many Wall Street jobs as there used to be, which is why a lot of these smart college grads end up in in S.V. chasing VC money to start companies...
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Re:Emails From Schmidt And Sergey Brin Show Agreements Not T... by usaar333 on Monday March 24, 2014 @02:31AM (#7457021)
Plenty of CS majors do.

I'm not even sure if finance beats CS pay for those in the top-tier, especially on a per-hour worked basis. It may be hard to track as so much comp in finance is bonus and so much in CS is equity.

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