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Comment by nick222226 | Hacker News Reader

What's the fastest way to jump this ladder. Swe at Google, cross train yourself on LLM in 20% time and at home, internal transfer, then get competing offers?

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Be born in 1980. Have reasonably well-off parents. Spend your childhood learning math and computers. Travel a little and learn a bit about the world. Study hard and do your homework. Get in to a top university and work on exactly the right problems. Get a job at google some time between 2003 and 2009. Spend at least a decade solving hard problems there, making good visible progress. Now wait to rake in the sweet sweet offers.

Spend at least a decade solving hard problems

That's the hard part. If you can do that you absolutely deserve all the sweet offers coming your way.

Also, be born with an extremely IQ.

Most of these people presumably have PhDs from top tier universities. So... don't think you'd be able to jump aboard this train without going back to school for a bit.

Most of these people are the best in the world at what they do. Like literally, the best out of tens of thousands of other smart people doing the same thing. If you think that you will become the worlds foremost expert in something if you "go back to school for a bit", then I don't know, maybe you should just go for it.

Publish a 10000 citation paper at NeurIPS.

Publish high impact papers or develop a social circle of influential folks and impress them

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