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CTO / VP of engineering at small VC-backed companies that employ less than 50 engineers. My current CTO spends most of his time spamming ChatGPT-related stuff, and discussing "key objectives" he replaces every few months, thus having next to no accountability. It was the same at my previous job.
Devrel where you spend your time being a public speaker more than a technical professional, talking about code that you've never run in production?
I get the feeling that "tech evangalist" is a pretty sweet gig, provided that you can find somebody who will pay you to do it ;)
Position on the board of directors of a publicly traded (tech) company, can't get more "trophy" than that.
Quants at prop trading or buy-side HFT (not banks). There’s a lot of substance in those jobs (denominator), but the status is insanely high (numerator). Smart. Quants are generally “smart” with diverse software, hardware, and math knowledge. Scarcity. In the United States, the entire industry might hire 1,000 to 2,000 new grad quants per year. And most importantly, a realistic path to $1M+ TC by 5 YOE, and $10M+ TC i…
I think these roles only hire from top tier colleges and if you didn't get into one, too bad the ship has sailed. Can't argue on comp though. These jobs post very well.
Quants at prop trading or buy-side HFT (not banks). There’s a lot of substance in those jobs (denominator), but the status is insanely high (numerator). Smart. Quants are generally “smart” with diverse software, hardware, and math knowledge. Scarcity. In the United States, the entire industry might hire 1,000 to 2,000 new grad quants per year. And most importantly, a realistic path to $1M+ TC by 5 YOE, and $10M+ TC i…
I think these roles only hire from top tier colleges and if you didn't get into one, too bad the ship has sailed. Can't argue on comp though. These jobs post very well.
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Recruiters suck, but they do provide value.
I'm happy to agree that some recruiters provide value, but on average? I don't know how to objectively tell, but it sure seems like spray-and-pray is still the most common approach, and that doesn't seem valuable.
Full disclosure - I am a mediocre product manager. First PM role after 20 years in engineering.
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Wasn't there a story recently about a janitor ruining 20 years of research or something?
It was something about someone getting annoyed over an alarm from a refrigerator and deciding to pull the plug.