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by Juliate 402 days ago
> such as "fresh-faced bay area 25 year old with a Steve Jobs complex" screams out toxic personality.

Well... that may as well be a very clinical observation; I've lost count of how many I've met in interviewing rounds, on either side of the table or in my own teams. It wouldn't surprise me a lot of tech people go through such a phase, at some (hopefully as shortest as possible) point of their early career. I probably have.
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MichaelZuo 401 days ago
It reveals a mediocre mindset and likely self undermining too… since most of those types are in fact smarter than the ~80th-90th percentile.

So it would have even worse implications for anyone complaining against them, who isn’t clearly way beyond that threshold.

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Juliate 401 days ago
> It reveals a mediocre mindset and likely self undermining too

It could.

> since most of those types are in fact smarter than the ~80th-90th percentile.

But you’re skipping the very issue of this mindset. Being smarter along a very specific scale of evaluation doesn’t make one de facto « smarter » in general, neither properly adjusted to work and collaborate in an organisation.

Denouncing arrogance might not be the best move in some context, but it is not a show of weakness.

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MichaelZuo 400 days ago
How would this matter to a random passing reader?

They’re not going to assume the author is any more virtuous/wise/etc… than the complained against, without some compelling evidence.

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Juliate 400 days ago
Why should people refrain from stating what they see? It's his blog, why should he refrain to express himself? Why should you decide in his stead, what does matter or not to him to express?

A minor signal is still a signal, that may, or may not, accrue to other converging ones.

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MichaelZuo 400 days ago
How does this relate to my prior two comments?

I don’t see the connection to how any random group of HN readers perceive this or that.

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la64710 399 days ago
And that’s the problem.Lot of people are not in the top 10% of intelligence spectrum but they do need to make at least 130-150k per yer to survive in USA and the only skill they have is related to computers.
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MichaelZuo 398 days ago
Huh? median salary is much much less than that.

You mean “survive” in their desired neighborhoods?

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