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The wealthy have the income to test prep for high scores. The poor don’t necessarily have the time or money to focus as much on test prep as the rich. Your method may exclude a population of the poor.

Seems like most articles written on this subject assume young people come from "well-off enough" families that can support them, even if they themselves are broke. It seems like "my family can support me" is universally accepted as truth for such people in those situations.

Are there any articles or studies done on young people from working-class families or families that aren't affluent enough to support them?

People from poor demographics in general are discriminated against in various ways.

Want to learn math but come from a poor neighborhood? Good luck. You’re probably locked in a school system with bad teachers and few if any math courses beyond calculus.

Even if you’re talented you probably know 0 people that can help you. Now your growth is prematurely stunted.

That kid from a better off family that shows talent in math? Probably get recognized for it from an early age and gets tutors and advanced training. Probably already completed proof based courses in analysis, algebra by the time they completed high school. They get into better schools and have ahead start. Even if they are just as talented as you the poor kid.

What sort of jobs did Amazon have in mind for the locals in LIC (if any)? Were they considering providing tech training to hire them into software development roles? Or did they have in mind lower paying jobs? The bigger question is how can tech companies incorporate locals? What sort of training efforts can they provide to those without tech backgrounds? Would they train them in bootcamp style programs, to fail them at the leetcode interview phase, or is there pipeline that could incorporate non-tech folks into such roles?

I like this book: https://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Symmetry-Exposing-Patterns-N...

I think what is often missed in mainstream discussions on "giftedness" is those gifted but with disabilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional

These are students that are gifted, but due to their disabilities underperform. It isn't uncommon for them to not be identified as gifted, and thus never be put in gifted classes despite being very intelligent.

Imagine having someone 140+ IQ that is stuck in a standard classroom all 12-years of their pre-college education because they weren't ever identified. They typically are the students that enroll in special services and get exam accommodations in colleges.

At least colleges recognize these sort of students. For example Princeton has such services: https://ods.princeton.edu

I take it as a joke. Not everyone is married or has a significant other. But guess what? Now you do and you can advertise, just like everyone else. It is like a support animal, except now you have a support "significant other".

Thanks! Roughly, what does is the difference between a senior and principle engineer? How common is it to reach senior for a normal dev vs principle?

What kind of skill sets do you have to warrant Amazon paying you that much? What kind of skill sets do developers have at this level that differentiates them from everyone else?

What kind of companies pay software engineers 300k+? Is it realistic to make 500k-1 million+ at these companies as a developer? What sort of title/level are these developers at? How much is it in stocks/rsus vs salary at that point? Can someone lay out a traditional example at this level? What skillsets do these people have?

Another idea to retain or hire faculty: let them have dual enrollment at tech companies and universities. Not sure if this is a good idea, or if it works. But I'd certainly be interested in studying the outcomes of it. Potentially could cause a conflict of interest in motivation of academic research vs industry driven research to profit the company, or even be used as a way to fast-track students to said company. Not that these things are inherently bad, but such decisions could have undesired outcomes for the universities that do this. But could be an idea worth exploring. Or, universities could become more competitive with salaries.

Budgeting is an issue with my school as well. Our school is understaffed and has been opening up positions for new faculty hiring, including hiring teaching only positions (where they hire PhDs for such positions, with renewal contracts).

I've also heard of the idea of charging a departmental fee to become a CS major, similar to the idea that certain engineering departments have such fees. The idea here is that this fee would go towards the department but allow the student access to things like hacker spaces and or other resources that everyone else in the school would be presumably excluded from. A lot of things are trying to be figured out to address this issue.

Some universities rank those that are majoring in CS higher up in the registration chain, than those taking it for elective, those that are minoring in CS and those that are returning back to school. This means multitudes of students face difficulty in getting into their 100 & 200-level courses. At my school it isn't uncommon to have three sections of 300 students each in the 101 class and 300+ people vying for limited seats in the 200-level class. One of the sophomore level classes expanded their seats to nearly 500 people, but that doesn't solve the problem of getting into the upper division courses that are capped at 150 people. Schools are leaving out a large population of students registering for these courses, which may include first generation students, women and minorities. Even the 100-level courses can nearly be impossible to register for at this point.