I find this article incredibly ignorant right from the start. The basic assumption is "people are doing incredible things inside of video games, why aren't they doing this outside?". And then the next portion reads:
> Why are you building a graphics card inside minecraft instead of inside nvidia?
Minecraft is more enjoyable
Minecraft is more addictive
Minecraft found them first
They don’t know the latter option exists, or how they would do it, or think they’d fail at it
Not that interviews are impossibly hard even if you have the necessary ungodly expensive college degrees and certificates to prove your prowess, have your life entirely together, have plenty of cash lying around to risk relocating to a job where you might fail etc.
This idea where "why don't you just overcome all the stuff in your reality that is holding you back to be like all the people who don't struggle with these things" is just such a fundamentally idiotic brainspace.
Then they bring up names like Carnegie, Ford and John Rockefeller and how early they got started working and comparing that to themselves how they would "have killed for a tech internship at 14". Carnegie born 1888, John Ford born 1894, John Rockefeller born 1839. They weren't even born in the CENTURY that our concepts of work and education come from let alone the millenial shift in technology that changed literally everything about how we evaluate and view people.
But sure, an internship at 14 at FAANG is feasible if your own parents know someone in that space, you have a school that looks at that as an opportunity and you have enough pre-existing access to technology and knowledge to do ANYTHING at one of these companies than fetch coffee or whatever the equivalent of stacking paper is these days. UGH!
> Why are you building a graphics card inside minecraft instead of inside nvidia?
Not that interviews are impossibly hard even if you have the necessary ungodly expensive college degrees and certificates to prove your prowess, have your life entirely together, have plenty of cash lying around to risk relocating to a job where you might fail etc.This idea where "why don't you just overcome all the stuff in your reality that is holding you back to be like all the people who don't struggle with these things" is just such a fundamentally idiotic brainspace.
Then they bring up names like Carnegie, Ford and John Rockefeller and how early they got started working and comparing that to themselves how they would "have killed for a tech internship at 14". Carnegie born 1888, John Ford born 1894, John Rockefeller born 1839. They weren't even born in the CENTURY that our concepts of work and education come from let alone the millenial shift in technology that changed literally everything about how we evaluate and view people.
But sure, an internship at 14 at FAANG is feasible if your own parents know someone in that space, you have a school that looks at that as an opportunity and you have enough pre-existing access to technology and knowledge to do ANYTHING at one of these companies than fetch coffee or whatever the equivalent of stacking paper is these days. UGH!