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> Yet almost every CS major at Stanford still stays up all night doing leetcode or whatever stupid thing they're doing to try to get a place there. It's about
by q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 3y ago
> Yet almost every CS major at Stanford still stays up all night doing leetcode or whatever stupid thing they're doing to try to get a place there.
It's about the money.
Work at a startup, and get paid meager table scraps to "follow your dreams" and "work on something meaningful." Watch all your friends become millionaires while you work 14 hours a day to afford name-brand ramen noodles.
Or, work in Big Tech, get paid an actual decent salary, clock out in 60 hours or less every week while getting every perk imaginable, and retire into the upper-middle class before 50 (or 40, or sometimes 30).
- leoh 3y agoOf course it's about the money. But wait, if these folks were so brilliant, couldn't they just do their own thing instead of throwing their weight behind an incumbent, bloated, legacy giant? Let alone their talent going to /dev/null?
- baq 3y ago> clock out in 60 hours or less every week You misspelled 6.
- gambiting 3y ago>> get paid an actual decent salary, clock out in 60 hours or less every week while getting every perk imaginable, ....is that....meant to be good? As someone who works in "big tech" and works 37.5h a week I have no idea what kind of perk/money they would need to offer me to work 60 hours a week. I'm not sure that even exists - I like having a life outside of work.
- askonomm 3y agoBoth of these seem .. illegal where I am from. 40 hours a week is the maximum an employee can ask of you in EU. So does Google in EU then explicitly ask in the contracts that you agree to work more hours or how does that work? And also, why the heck would anyone want to work more than 40 hours a week?