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Nope, not upset. Just trying to make OP aware of their contradictory behavior. OP might be smarter than me, who knows. I don't really care, I feel pretty good

Nope, not upset. Just trying to make OP aware of their contradictory behavior. OP might be smarter than me, who knows. I don't really care, I feel pretty good about my intelligence level even though I know there are plenty of folks smarter than me out there. What I am is annoyed at the elitism that OP shows. I work at a FANG, have worked at a couple SV unicorns too. There is plenty of work happening here that is not as challenging as OP makes it out to be. I've seen a lot of people with the attitude OP has and I think it makes for a toxic and unwelcoming environment. As someone who has used complex algorithms research in my work, I agree white boarding has some carryover to some FANG work. But my experience is that there is vastly more boring CRUD work to do and you must generally fight with others to get the interesting/challenging algorithmics work. No need to filter out a ton of qualified people because they can't perform a tiny fraction of the work happening here.

01100011 5y ago
I think your biases have caused you to misread my original comment and attribute to me some beliefs with which you disagree. > vastly more boring CRUD work I don't do CRUD work and no one even close to my group does that. Are you a web programmer by chance? We work on systems software. If you've dealt with that I think you might agree that there isn't a lot of grunt work involved. Maybe when it comes to writing some tests but even then it can be fairly technical and require a lot of systems-level knowledge. FWIW, I'm not saying I'm personally smarter than anyone. I got lucky and got a job working with the smartest, most dedicated and focused people I have ever met in decades of work. They're smart, and working with them requires some combination of extreme personal sacrifice, intense focus, and a deep and wide knowledge of software, hardware, CS theory and language issues.

01100011 5y ago

I think your biases have caused you to misread my original comment and attribute to me some beliefs with which you disagree. > vastly more boring CRUD work I don't do CRUD work and no one even close to my group does that. Are you a web programmer by chance? We work on systems software. If you've dealt with that I think you might agree that there isn't a lot of grunt work involved. Maybe when it comes to writing some tests but even then it can be fairly technical and require a lot of systems-level knowledge. FWIW, I'm not saying I'm personally smarter than anyone. I got lucky and got a job working with the smartest, most dedicated and focused people I have ever met in decades of work. They're smart, and working with them requires some combination of extreme personal sacrifice, intense focus, and a deep and wide knowledge of software, hardware, CS theory and language issues.