risingintonatio

9년 전discuss

What exactly is the point of this post? I second the opinion that this shouldn't be on HN. It's just doxxing the poor girl.

risingintonatio

9년 전discuss

  If the Efficient Market Hypothesis is valid

... More like Efficient Market Fallacy. Information asymmetry, propagation delay, and feed back loops in the dynamical system that is the economy almost surely forbids for such a grand Hypothesis.

  But people without social skills end up working for people who do have social skills. The latter collect the money, the former do the work.

Amen.

risingintonatio

9년 전discuss

I've become more and more convinced that $1M+ per year is not realistic as an engineer.

There are compensation spreadsheets floating around and I've been privy to Facebook's and Google's. Assuming the numbers there are accurate (and anecdotally they are), even the "top 5%" engineers getting discretionary equity and bonus don't make more than $600k.

Meanwhile, executives easily make twice that in yearly cash bonuses.

I've grown a disdain towards said execs for being paid incommensurate with their actual value generated. Perhaps that's just my naïveté, and indeed they are that valuable. But I don't think so.

In short, to command astronomical salaries you need a pyramid of people working beneath you, so that you can garner part of their productivity for yourself.

Charisma will help you get there.

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