Me: Conservative $ estimate @ big companies.
BigCo employees: Yep, very conservative.
Internet: Impossible! No one makes that much.
#talkpay
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My guess is that he’s at a company he considers “top”, maybe Fortune 500, but like you guess not one that pays everyone well (Something like IBM?). I think his company grouping isn’t good, but 1/30 is not in the realm I’m comfortable arguing his use of the word “outliers”.
. I've done it before. But please don't spread disinformation!
If you remove the first and last sentence from his comment (everyone commenting drives a Porsche and makes $300k, these threads are always good for a morning laugh), then there's a reading of his comment that's reasonable. But IMO you can't read the middle part in isolation.
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Likely being excessively charitable, I can read the start and end as hyperbole for something like “hah! There’s a lot of super-pro people who breathe programming on HN, and they think merely average programmers like me can do as well as them, what a riot.”
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I've heard people also say that and I object to that, too, although I'd phrase that objection differently. IMO, if you take a random programmer and have them do leetcode problems for 100 hours (perhaps less), they have decent odds of passing a BigCo whiteboard interview.
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