Comment by joshdavham
1 year ago
> Up to this point in life, most of you have been rolling on train tracks. Elementary school, middle school, high school, college [...] And there are some jobs where you can make it stay like train tracks if you want
I've never envied the people who graduate college and then immediately go to work at big tech companies where they start off as an "SDE 1", then "SDE 2", then Mid level, senior, staff, principal, etc. There's definitely more security and stability in that, but I think these people are also missing out on a lot.
Startups might be the new SDE1 while trying to do stuff outside of capitalism might be the new startup.
Not in terms of financial reward of course. But in terms of rewarding career off the beaten path.
Personally while I want to do a startup I am finding the boring path you mention quite fascinating!
Every time I'm assisting those Ama/MS/Apple labels for their rate race I want to cringe so hard to be honest.
It does not matter. Everyone is a code whore. You will work at a place which pays you the highest, regardless of the ethics. Majority of "big tech" are unethical places and yet people will sell their souls to work there. Tells you a lot about the majority of CS grads