grainsout

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   by grainsout 10y ago

   I have a friend who graduated with a PhD in Chemistry a few years ago. He went down the research path, but eventually didn't like the pay. He had a good amount of programming experience and was primarily building simulation framework
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   by grainsout 10y ago

   I graduated in 2000, and I applied for a company doing telemetry processing in Java. I learned Java in 1997 (because Gosling was a PhD student at CMU a little before that time; we eat our own dog food). When I interviewed they asked me al
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   by grainsout 10y ago

   Consider that senior developers are busy and aren't going to make time to prep for interviews that lead to a job landing them a $15k-$20k bump (before taxes). Together with all the other intangibles (culture, nature of project work, c