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- I advise young engineers today to work for Fortune 500 companies, not Big Tech.
- Corporations are building real, cutting-edge, cool products, not chasing moonshots.
- Meanwhile, Big Tech has become the soul-sucking corporate machine.
After graduating with a Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia, Jon Weisz jumped into the tech industry, working for a robotics startup in Baltimore before arriving at X, Alphabet's vaunted "moonshot factory." He joined a team working on an all-purpose robot for space exploration, which sounded great on paper. Today, however, he's working on a project for a different kind of tech company: John Deere.