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People really give these agencies too much misplaced respect. The defense and intelligence communities hire from Tier 3 schools in the DC, Maryland and Virgini
by elastic_church 10y ago
People really give these agencies too much misplaced respect.
The defense and intelligence communities hire from Tier 3 schools in the DC, Maryland and Virginia area.
People that - you imagine - would get laughed at for not being from Stanford and Ivy League at every VC pitch meeting. People you would think weren't the "best of the best" hired by all the tech companies that brag about doing so.
Of course, their engineers are just are educated and ambitious, I'm just pointing out how warped people's perception has become.
- dgrealy 10y agoYou're totally right. Your industry definitely contains the worlds smartest people by nature and everyone else is second-rate and would be laughed at if they tried to work in Silicon Valley. I mean, do you actually hear yourself? Really listen to yourself and describe what you hear.
- rl3 10y agoThe comment you're replying to appears to be explcit sarcasm, albeit oddly put.
- elastic_church 10y agoJust echoing perception. People think intelligence agencies' engineers are geniuses, but are candidates that wouldn't be considered geniuses in the private sector solely because of their pedigree.
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- bitJericho 10y agoHaving worked in government, at least half of everybody I've met would be considered too incompetent for the job, if it were a normal company. So yes, it would be easy for me to believe that government workers would be laughed at in silicon valley.