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Meta has done a lot of interesting work in the hardware space. In hardware, you just kind of accept, regardless of your company or its vision, that your work i
by georgeburdell 4y ago
Meta has done a lot of interesting work in the hardware space. In hardware, you just kind of accept, regardless of your company or its vision, that your work is ultimately used to facilitate the watching of cat videos.
- eru 4y agoAlternatively, your work is being used to process financial information and trades a few nanoseconds faster, or your work is being used by the military, ...
- xxs 4y agoNaturally, the nature of the 1st to ring the bell (i.e. HFT) poses an interesting concept. It's a very technical goal in itself.
- eru 4y agoDefinitely. And I don't actually disagree with HFT or finance in general, or sending cat pictures around. (I'm reserving my judgement on the military.)
- Cerium 4y agoFor a long time I thought that cat videos, HFT, and military tech were the options. I worked HFT for a while. Then I discovered medical technology. You can work on interesting hardware and software for devices that absolutely make the world better. It's great.
- pcthrowaway 4y agoDo any companies in the medtech space pay as well as the other options?
- Cerium 4y agoIn my experience, yes. I get paid a bit better than I would expect at Microsoft and a bit worse than if I went to Apple.
- marshray 4y agoData security! You can work on defending the masses from the militaries and bad actors of the world.
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoAlso lots of hardware in industrial applications. Though fundamentally you can consider that everything is in indirectly service of cat videos. Even a jet turbine blade casting machine is going to be used to get someone home faster to load up the cats.