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What do you mean?

• xapata 8y ago
  I've met smart people at dumb companies and dumb people at smart companies (and schools). The more experience I have working with the most respected people and organizations, the more evidence I discover that reputation is more corellated with happenstance than with merit.
  • sadamznintern 8y ago
    Ah, that's what you mean. I've worked at small and larger companies and there are brilliant people on all levels (if anything I was more impressed with some of the experienced engineers at my first company that nobody has ever heard of than my last company). Nonetheless, if I were to put myself in the shoes of a brilliant USAMO medalist who goes to MIT and interned at Jane Street starting my sophomore year, I doubt I'd see the difference or be internally charitable towards those who weren't born as gifted or persistent as myself. They would be $90k a year humans, not $250k+ a year humans like myself. If the elites are stereotyping me, I don't see anything wrong with stereotyping them. "I stereotype. It's faster."
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