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> How can I make pull in $1mn+ as an engineer? > I don't want to have to be in the top 1% like Jeff Dean, but top 25% and still get these results. That's a co
by lutusp 10y ago
> How can I make pull in $1mn+ as an engineer?
> I don't want to have to be in the top 1% like Jeff Dean, but top 25% and still get these results.
That's a contradiction in terms. If you made a million dollars, that outcome would place you in the top 1% among software engineers.
If the Efficient Market Hypothesis is valid and in operation in the software marketplace, then to make a million dollars, you will have to earn it. It's really as simple as that. Speaking as someone who made plenty more than a million dollars -- by earning it.
> Don't have social skills and want to make more money.
But people without social skills end up working for people who do have social skills. The latter collect the money, the former do the work.
- risingintonatio 10y agoIf the Efficient Market Hypothesis is valid ... More like Efficient Market Fallacy. Information asymmetry, propagation delay, and feed back loops in the dynamical system that is the economy almost surely forbids for such a grand Hypothesis. But people without social skills end up working for people who do have social skills. The latter collect the money, the former do the work. Amen.
- lutusp 10y ago>> If the Efficient Market Hypothesis is valid > ... More like Efficient Market Fallacy. Yes, maybe. We'll probably never know, since it can't be science. The EMH is one of those things that stands as an icon, a principle, a discussion point, that may or may not have any bearing on the world, but that we often use as a ruler to compare against reality -- like truth and beauty.