Did any of you guys at cool companies start somewhere subpar?
Im graduating soon. I spent most of college studying Math because I used to be an academia wannabe, and now Im starting my software career at a company in the finance sector which I believe is far below what my ability will be a year from now (I've been programming and reading CS textbooks all the time for about half a year and I'm getting waay waay better than I was when I accepted the job...