> If these people didn't need money, they wouldn't work for Apple or Google. That’s definitely not true[1] for many of the engineers that I know at these compa

> If these people didn't need money, they wouldn't work for Apple or Google. That’s definitely not true[1] for many of the engineers that I know at these companies. There are lots of extremely valuable and interesting engineering projects that are only possible to tackle in the context of a large corporation (or agency) with billion-dollar budgets and the scale and influence that brings. [1] How do I know? Because they don’t need the money; they’ve seen enough RSUs in their careers that they could easily “do what they loved” if it were anything other than what they’re doing now. Also, because they tell me as much.