The Stem Degree Scam: Why I Quit Coding [video]

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by AlbertoGP • 3 years ago

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AlbertoGP• 3 years ago

[00:00:27] its an over saturated field at this point, and if you're in STEM you're are going to be in for the rat race of a lifetime, competing against the hardest working hungriest immigrants in the world for their visas, and they need this more than you. They're willing to work harder than you at lower pay, cheaper in worse conditions, because they need this. And so quite frankly I think students are being lied to when we tell them to go and do STEM.
[00:01:00] backlash against STEM, someone notes here there's a ton of indoctrination that typically goes into STEM degrees, which no one seems willing to admit. Arguably most scientific research data and papers can be fudged or simply made up. There's even a reproducibility crisis, where most research papers can't be reproduced, and so a lot of it was simply made up or the experiments set up in a certain way to bias for a certain desired result which was paid for by the sponsors of the experiment right paid for by grant money. I mean just take a look at Dr Fauci, the vaccinations and Covid masks, they can get science to back up whatever data they wanted to back up.
[00:05:24] When I was conducting interviews for FAANG at Google and Facebook I would occasionally interview these immigrants who were just so smart, I mean they knew every LeetCode question they could ace them just one after the other, perfect answers, and they would smoke any American. I mean they were brilliant candidates, America needs that kind of talent, we should bring them in but it's just personally I would not want to compete at that level. I mean I've got better things to do than that, and maybe you should find something better to do as well, and even in the coding competitions like the ACM competitions I've competed in before, Americans just don't stand the chance because we just don't want enough.
[00:11:43] In my personal opinion the world is about to get a lot more entrepreneurial if it hasn't already. These days every teenager and their grandma seems to be an entrepreneur or a CEO, and sure we like to laugh at them but some of these people actually are legit CEOs and entrepreneurs, and in a way the 9-to-5 employee just can't compete with that type of world anymore. Eventually the 9-to-5 employee slave will truly become the world of the wage slaves a bottom rung of society, kind of like blue collarr worker. You could do it if you like I guess, if you think it's fun.

The Stem Degree Scam: Why I Quit Coding [video]

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