All I’ll say is that this doesn’t match my experience. In fact I’m not sure what you’re saying. There seems to be no other career path as lucrative with comparatively little effort. Heck, I took a break from porting ML models to type this on my iPad, and the way things are going, I’ll probably be able to retire within a decade. Not too shabby.
If you think a motivated 20 something can’t do this, it’s just not true. The trick is that you need to focus on money. Start negotiating salary aggressively, demonstrate your skills, and interview at multiple places on a regular basis.
It really does though. CS exams are hard and require a lot of studying and then there's leetcode, system design and everything else under the sun.
What about dating, travelling, sports, family? Is one supposed to spend their entire time thinking of ways to speed-up algorithms. There's a reason fast algorithms are fast they utilize a lof of hard work and focus to create.
> What about dating, travelling, sports, family? Is one supposed to spend their entire time thinking of ways to speed-up algorithms.
I find it peculiarly reassuring that so many HN commenters are adding things like this -- my own experience of my twenties would have been better if people had stopped me more often to say "are you sure you're OK?" and "is this really all you want?"
All I’ll say is that this doesn’t match my experience. In fact I’m not sure what you’re saying. There seems to be no other career path as lucrative with comparatively little effort. Heck, I took a break from porting ML models to type this on my iPad, and the way things are going, I’ll probably be able to retire within a decade. Not too shabby.
If you think a motivated 20 something can’t do this, it’s just not true. The trick is that you need to focus on money. Start negotiating salary aggressively, demonstrate your skills, and interview at multiple places on a regular basis.