Where are all your smartest friends going?

Jun 29, 2021 9 Comments

Yes, you're the smartest, but NOT you. Your smartest friends. Which company/sector are they going to?

TC πŸ₯œ
(Still in grad school)

#tech #stockoptions #investments

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TOP 9 Comments
  • Snap
    demitrios

    Go to company page Snap

    demitrios
    Bartending. Those the smartest blokes in my circle
    Jun 29, 2021 1
    • New
      goodJuJuSh

      New

      goodJuJuSh
      It’s true
      Jun 29, 2021
  • New
    glishlaine

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    glishlaine
    hedge funds / high freq trading
    Jun 30, 2021 0
  • NVIDIA
    deep_magic

    Go to company page NVIDIA

    deep_magic
    This is a typical progression:

    PhD from top school --> FAANG | other top companies at L4 --> potentially Promo to L5 --> Other top companies to double TC --> smaller yet known company but significantly higher title --> repeat last step but still higher --> Currently director/VP level of some mid sized company.

    For most of them, company itself is not super elite, although decent/good. But they are no longer IC or senior/staff software engineers. They are in high level executive positions. Because at that range, it matters less that you work for Yahoo and matter more that you are the director of engineering. Because pay is on another level.
    Jun 30, 2021 2
  • They have their own startup/business
    Jun 29, 2021 1
    • +1. Two folks I graduated with around five years ago have multi-million-dollar businesses now. One of them worked in a highly specialized field first and then leveraged that experience. The other just went right in.
      Jun 30, 2021
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    goodJuJuSh

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    goodJuJuSh
    Academia as professors, dropping out of PhD programs, researchers in industry, engineers at startups we haven’t heard of
    Jun 29, 2021 0