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This is decidedly not true. While I wouldn't be so vain as to call myself the top 1% of developers, I've gotten job offers from most major software companies, b
by mdkess 15y ago
This is decidedly not true. While I wouldn't be so vain as to call myself the top 1% of developers, I've gotten job offers from most major software companies, but one of my criteria for where I accept a job is "do you have fewer than 50 people?"
I want to write code all day, and I want to work on interesting and very hard problems. While this exists at large companies, there are very few jobs at top tier small companies where this doesn't exist.
- lurker14 15y agoThat seems backwards. At a big company like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, engineers code all day and industry-leading problems. At a small company, there's a lot of setting up servers and customizing UI and evaluating 3rd-party software packages.
- zeroonetwothree 15y agoThere's plenty of that at large companies too.
- esrauch 15y agoSetting up a server in a back room in your office is a much different task than setting up a server at Big Co. scale though, they basically aren't even the same task at all.
- mjwalshe 15y agoI was more implying that if you want to work at the top Organization in the field places like CERN and Bell labs are going to attract the brightest and not a small me to start-up. I would consider an attempt by a senior Intel guys to split and do a new Traitorous 8 a different case as you would need a huge investment.
- mjwalshe 15y agowriting code is the easy part solving the solution you have been asked to solve