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I'd wager it's even more true among top-tier candidates. Anecdotally the best engineers I've ever worked with have been among the most uninterested in politics.
by ng12 7y ago
I'd wager it's even more true among top-tier candidates. Anecdotally the best engineers I've ever worked with have been among the most uninterested in politics.
- solveit 7y agoMy experience is that they're interested in politics somewhat orthogonal to the mainstream discourse.
- UncleMeat 7y agoAnecdotally, several of the smartest people I knew as a grad student at Stanford are now working for an international nonprofit seeking to reduce bigotry, working in politics focused on privacy, working on encrypted communications, and working as faculty at another top tier university focused on accessibility and ml fairness.
- ng12 7y agoNot many of the excellent programmers I know went to grad school. It's probably self-selected for people interested in social issues.