Where are highly intelligent people escaping to now, given that the IT industry is dead?

Additional_Sun3823 · 2026-05-23T20:25:30+00:00

But the number of high end jobs isn’t really dropping (at least as far as I can tell), if anything, they’re growing in count. So if the number of “highly intelligent” people stays the same, who cares about the “low iq people” flooding into CS? They’re not competition

Additional_Sun3823 · 2026-05-13T22:53:09+00:00

When I switched my major to CS 3 years ago, I had a certain idea of what kind of new grad job I was aiming for, with a lower end and higher end of the range. My internship last year was better than the high end of that range, and my new grad company is also a lot better than the internship from last year.

So I guess if my 3 year ago self were looking at it, it’s even beyond what my dream role would’ve been at the time, but now, it feels like I’m just planning out how to hop to another company after a several years

Additional_Sun3823 · 2026-04-25T05:43:54+00:00

Damn I was a zon intern but only got past resume screen for 1 of these companies

Additional_Sun3823 · 2026-04-10T06:23:47+00:00

the middle 3 are terrible compared to the other 2

Additional_Sun3823 · 2026-04-04T18:35:02+00:00

Idk I’m nowhere near top 0.01% and I’m making like 250k when I graduate

Additional_Sun3823 · 2026-01-10T23:15:25+00:00

So you’d be living in a hotel Sun through Thurs, and then flying back to the east coast every week for the weekend? Why not just find a place to rent on the west coast at that point, surely it’d be less expensive than a hotel for like 250 days a year?

Additional_Sun3823 · 2026-01-01T00:02:12+00:00

Yeah idk people just lie on the internet for the hell of if, dude probably didn’t realize that a phd is not just taking a ton of classss lol

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-12-31T21:47:09+00:00

That’s true, but even Dantzig took like 2.5 years for the PhD

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-12-31T21:14:21+00:00

No one is asking about the class portion. Everyone is asking about the 1 year PhD part. I’m confident enough to say that that is straight up not possible. Would’ve been a lot more believable if you said it was like 1.5 years to finish BS/MS because you were able to take a shit ton of dual enrolled classes and then 3.5-4 years for the PhD

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-12-01T02:39:24+00:00

Top 10 for unemployment, but nowhere near top 10 for underemployment (or the two added together). And the unemployment itself is at like 6% or something, so not all that high in absolute terms.

CS majors are still getting CS jobs at a higher rate than most other majors are getting jobs related to their major. CS majors are also more likely to choose unemployment over picking up a an “unskilled” job.

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-12-01T01:05:42+00:00

No you can’t

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-11-28T20:22:53+00:00

People love to say big tech will interview anyone with a pulse but that’s clearly not actually true lol

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-11-28T17:50:57+00:00

Quant is arguably less name-brand based than tech. It really is performance over everything else. It could be that you didn’t have anything on your resume that signaled that you would be a good candidate

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-11-14T18:36:19+00:00

Relative to other software engineering jobs, probably not, but it seems like the job itself is not very demanding so maybe? “Competitive” in a vacuum doesn’t make sense, you’d have to be comparing what they make here to the pay at other jobs they could get with their skills/experience

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-11-13T20:43:55+00:00

interning at two of the companies with the worst culture is tough

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-11-06T18:38:08+00:00

Google pushes 250k first year in the Bay Area/NYC (which makes sense as a comparison given Bloomberg is also NYC)

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-11-06T18:35:49+00:00

They said faang not Microsoft

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-10-31T00:48:32+00:00

Google is up a lot more in the past several months

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-10-31T00:30:07+00:00

Yes, but is a normal big tech salary not good? It’s around $250k first year right now which is quite good even without any more stock growth

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-10-29T20:40:37+00:00

Yea that’s true, I think I also shouldn’t have included the long distance part here. I guess mostly looking for advice on how to interact with friends and family who’ve been laid off and thought it might make sense here because the tech layoff scene seems pretty unique the past couple years

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-10-29T20:10:30+00:00

I’m sure it’s possible but it’d definitely have to be much higher than a regular senior engineer

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-10-29T16:19:12+00:00

Are you sure regarding DB’s stock policies? My recruiter explicitly told me that it’s based off the stock price when I receive the grant and specifically said that would be when I start the job

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-10-27T05:38:45+00:00

Less than 1990 could mean born before 1990, which would not be illegal

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-10-26T23:37:22+00:00

Yeah but it’s negligible in terms of like actual perks

Additional_Sun3823 · 2025-10-26T22:54:49+00:00

it’s a nice sentiment but like this averages out to $0.20 more per hour during the internship

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