On: “Here's the number I used to win the lottery“ –Ent...

[scarface74]

The chance of the average CS grad - well at least until this year - of being able to “grind leetcode and working for a FAANG” (c) r/cscareerquestions and ending up with over 1 million dollars of before tax “profits” in four years is much greater than your average “startup founder” that’s not even counting the risk premium.

And yes I’m far away from a new college grad.

[m3kw9 → scarface74]

Yeah, first finding out this is a way to game the software engineer hiring system and having the believe to go “all in” and try if one of the company’s stupid enough to hire mostly based on that fact

[scarface74 → m3kw9]

You realize that is the way to get in all of the best paying companies as a software engineer?

No I didn’t do it. But I have 25 years of experience in the industry and was able to get a remote role via a slight pivot.