Trying to assimilate a list of companies with the smartest folks. Some criteria: 1. Top colleges 2. Top doctoral programs 3. People who were part of the founding teams for products and companies like - Gmail, WhatsApp, Discord, Uber, Snap, Instagram, Airbnb, etc. 4. People who don’t harp about WLB, they understand that great things require hard work. 5. Folks who were senior/ staff/Principal engineers at Amazon and Google in 2010 - 2017 when it actually meant something. TC: 650k (cash 330k)
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Is that the new Albertsons ?
Let's get the obvious out of the way. - OpenAI - Jane Street/Citadel - MosaicML And for those who don't care about money, - Institute of advanced studies - NASA (researchers, not engineering)
NASA?
Yes, think of astrophysicists studying blackholes/wormholes, or finding the origin of the universe at Hadron Collider. Highest of respect to their intellect and passion, despite lack of TC.
WLB is more important than all of those things you listed
We all value our careers differently.
Stripe has got no life 🤣
The word you are looking for is "assemble" not "assimilate".
1. take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully. "Marie tried to assimilate the week's events"
I'm trying very hard to be helpful here. It's evident that you don't want my help. Which is fine. I'll let you go on your merry way to misuse this word in the future. Good night!
ignoring WLB and being smart are mutually exclusive things
OpenAI, JS, Citadel, Anthropic, Google Brain/DeepMind, Five Rings, etc. Basically you’re looking for competitive LLM companies and finance
Thanks for the laugh!
> People who don’t harp about WLB, they understand that great things require hard work. The notion of WLB makes only sense and applies to average people (e.g. like me) who are not geniuses, do not own a significant portion of the business, are not working on a scientific breakthrough, are not undertaking genius-level creative endeavors. - Did 2Pac or Oppenheimer have WLB? - The question makes no sense (or in other words all their life is their work what should they balance?) - Should I pursue WLB? - Absolutely, the opposite is wasting my life away while being an underdog of such people in essence. Another question: do you think those people do OnCall or shit away their days working on miserable tasks? No, their processes and deliverables are on an abstract level (on a much more creative and declarative level)
Point is to put yourself in a position where you an owner and you see a larger return. When I was at Amazon I aimed to get the highest possible ratings every year because that had an outsized return. Work on the most interesting projects, get big bumps, get a chance to sit in meetings within directors and principal engineers to follow what their thought process is. Now, I’m trying to find places where I can get enough equity that the outsized return will be making more money.
The fact that you were looking to get the highest ratings explains perfectly the difference between the underdog and the genius in the above comment
Chilling at home and doing sth own
Foolish to think that’s what will make you big money or commercial success.
OpenAI because it’s still small and nimble
3k employees for a chatbot?
No the underlying ML models and cutting edge use cases