Defense Engineers, why not join tech?

Apple
timmmmay

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timmmmay
Apr 15 77 Comments

As a former defense industry engineer, let me tell you the grass is greener. Much greener.

Let me know if you need coaching or referral

#northropgrumman #lockheed #lockheedmartin #Boeing #dellemc #Dell #generalatomics

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  • Coinbase
    alpha chad

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    alpha chad
    Higher tc? Sure.

    Better tech and interesting problems? Absolutely fucking not.

    I started my career building machine learning classifiers for real-time {redacted}. Wide immediate and completely different use cases thrown at us all the time. All green field, all technically challenging, and all impactful (literally xD).

    Went to twitter and optimized ad click throw rates by 0.01% over a years time for 3x the TC๐Ÿคข๐Ÿคฎ

    Chances are most swes would be making apps for like dog sitting or something completely banal instead of like contributing to the f35 or something awesome.
    Apr 15 8
    • I like how you go right from saying you wouldnโ€™t stay late to help the world to describing Apple employees as upstanding for not doing dumb shit that would hurt the bottom line. The only real reason it doesnโ€™t sell itโ€™s users is because it makes hardware, and is fighting the rest of big Tech that is purely Ads with a few side projects.

      I have no problem if you just want to make money, Iโ€™m just saying thereโ€™s two camps: those who sacrifice others for self and those who sacrifice self for others. Not everyone follows you in the first category so big Tech isnโ€™t as appealing
      Apr 20
    • I contribute to the F35 and would much much rather get paid 3x as muchโ€ฆ
      Apr 20
  • SoFi / Eng
    2girls1dsa

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    2girls1dsa
    lol dell is considered defense?
    Apr 15 3
  • Iโ€™m trying
    Apr 17 8
  • Anduril
    PlmrSenpai

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    PlmrSenpai
    Defense isnโ€™t the problem - boomer defense is. Anduril and Palantir are working on more important problems than cranking out more iWidgets.

    Bonus - no woke big tech bs
    Apr 15 1
    • Apple
      timmmmay

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      timmmmay
      OP
      Idk, Iโ€™ve seen more diversity hiring discrimination in defense than big tech. Probably out of necessity considering the candidate pool
      Apr 15
  • My brothers job at SpaceX always gets many oohs and aahs at the dinner table (understandably). Much cooler to learn about rockets than arbitrary KPIs for software that nobody has heard of or really cares about.

    Not that other peoples opinion matters, but my point is, when you zoom out, could you describe what you do accurately to yourself as a kid and get them excited?
    Apr 15 4