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In the "old days" people were mostly talking about doing startups, or doing creative geeky stuff. There's still a lot of that, of course, which is why I'm still
by Turing_Machine 5y ago
In the "old days" people were mostly talking about doing startups, or doing creative geeky stuff. There's still a lot of that, of course, which is why I'm still here, but there's definitely a lot more "How do I game this metric to get hired by a FAANG?"
Getting hired by a FAANG is the antithesis of doing a startup, or doing some original research, or even working on a clever hack just for the joy of it.
- Apocryphon 5y agoThe economics of joining a startup has changed compared to a decade ago. This was made most apparent a couple years ago when the thread on a VC's startup boosterism video roundly denounced it for spreading empty promises: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865065