It sucks bc I am pursuing CS and that's the "goal" but not actually bc I'm a STEM major with morals and so I have cut myself out of a lot of potential opportunities (even if they are somewhat unlikely) bc I would feel like a POS if I worked at any of those places
My real goal is roblox, which surprisingly pays better than FAANG. by like a lot . Other STEM fields are a lot more bleak. Aerospace basically guarantees you're building missiles. MechE means some defense company (luckily my dad is mechE and didn't end up that path). It sucks that the money is in defense companies
i'm in the same boat, but i'm also studying (actually finished a degree) in earth sciences and geography so hopefully i can end up doing something better. I know someone that literally went to work for raytheon and others for banks and shit and damn no way could i do that
Same boat, even if it's a little limiting there's so much value in not hating yourself for building evil things or building neutral things for companies who are going to use it for evil.
I got a cold recruiting email from palantir once :agony: so at least I know my opsec is okay
I mean a lot of the big tech companies have teams that work on open source projects that I wouldn't mind joining. Also especially for juniors, the big salaries and above average engineering practices will be useful in the future like if you want to start/join a worker coop for example.
The same with me, a lot of people with my kind of degree end up working for intelligence agencies. When i said i could/would never work for them, i was looked at real funny.
It sucks bc I am pursuing CS and that's the "goal" but not actually bc I'm a STEM major with morals and so I have cut myself out of a lot of potential opportunities (even if they are somewhat unlikely) bc I would feel like a POS if I worked at any of those places
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My real goal is roblox, which surprisingly pays better than FAANG. by like a lot . Other STEM fields are a lot more bleak. Aerospace basically guarantees you're building missiles. MechE means some defense company (luckily my dad is mechE and didn't end up that path). It sucks that the money is in defense companies
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That's a good point
Also the whole Roblox thing, wtf???? Interns make close to $60/hr
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I mean yeah that's probably it, I doubt I'll make it there but hey shoot for moon land in the stars or something like that
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huh, Roblox is apparently a federal contractor
damn really tf?
~looking at the r/politics megathread was a mistake~
edit: I got confused and replied to something in the wrong thread. I do still stand by the above statement though
link?
edit: I am big dumb and replied to comments in the wrong thread
I am confused about the roblox thing
i'm in the same boat, but i'm also studying (actually finished a degree) in earth sciences and geography so hopefully i can end up doing something better. I know someone that literally went to work for raytheon and others for banks and shit and damn no way could i do that
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I know people who want to work for the Verfassungsschutz. And when i said that those are all Nazis and why on earth would you do that.
I was told those were single exceptional occurences and even if they were bad someone had to join to make it better.
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Also reforming a fascist organisation from within is, i imagine, difficult.
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Same boat, even if it's a little limiting there's so much value in not hating yourself for building evil things or building neutral things for companies who are going to use it for evil.
I got a cold recruiting email from palantir once :agony: so at least I know my opsec is okay
I mean a lot of the big tech companies have teams that work on open source projects that I wouldn't mind joining. Also especially for juniors, the big salaries and above average engineering practices will be useful in the future like if you want to start/join a worker coop for example.
The same with me, a lot of people with my kind of degree end up working for intelligence agencies. When i said i could/would never work for them, i was looked at real funny.