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Answer: Very good if you can demonstrate that "non-geek" factor Let me start.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest What are my chances of getting into UPenn, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Brown, or such schools? Maurice Ewing, Decision scientist, consultant and HuffPost Columnist 131 votes Very good if you can demonstrate that "non-geek" factor Let me start by putting this all into perspective: Nikola Tesla, perhaps the greatest scientist of the last two centu...  Read More » How do billionaires see $100K or $1M? Do they still consider it a lot of money? Johnny Le 7.2k votes About 10 years ago or so, maybe longer, Bill Gates attended a conference at a hotel near my house where it charged $30 for valet parking. The story was that Bill Gates pull...  Read More » How can I make my brain sharper, smarter and faster? Anmol Agrawal 88 votes I once asked myself this question and I started observing people who were "sharper, smarter and faster". At the age of 21, I was inspired by Warren Buffett, although I am n...  Read More » How does it feel to earn INR 3.5 LPA after completing engineering from one of the best colleges of India? Ankit Chand, Breaking Stereotypes | FICO Consultant | Learner | Problem-solver | Bipolar,OCD 256 votes Q) How does it feel to earn INR 3.5 LPA after completing engineering from one of the best colleges of India? A) Penny Less. ... Read More » What is the daily routine of an IITian? Rajat Singh 47 votes Probably this is the routine of a typical IITian(atleast its my routine and i am a student of IIT-BHU):- 1.Waking up at 7:30 in the morning as we have classes from 8am.Half ...  Read More » Financially speaking, which computer languages can earn the most for the programmer? Kurt Guntheroth 60 votes Well, lets see. James Gosling developed Java, and got to be a fellow at Sun. That's pretty good pay. Don't know where he is now. Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++, and it's b...  Read More » Why do people in North India disrespect even the topmost colleges (PESIT, RVCE, BMS, etc.) in Bengaluru? Rohit Bastian 153 votes I am a 2015 PESIT graduate, and hail from Dharwad, North Karnataka. To answer your question, I must confess that I myself was of the same thinking as the many North-Indians... Read More » Can a person use functional programming (FP) languages for Google interviews? How? Ken Fishkin 291 votes Hi, I'm a Google engineer whose done about 200 interviews there, and has been on hiring comittee. You may use one of the non-"big 5" languages (Java, Python, C/C++, JavaSc... Read More » What will be the career advice you will give to a software engineer? Ezequiel H. Martinez, Computer Scientist & MBA. 173 votes If you really like to code: Don't go into management. EVER. If you really like to provide solutions: Go into management, but don't quit your code. Be proud of your vocation, ...  Read More » What are the Internet speeds at the various IITs? Rishabh Gupta 393 votes Sorry to say that highest net surfing is not at IIT Bombay its at IIT Roorkee I think... This is the speed which I have taken a snapshot i.e. 89 MBps. sometimes it goes more...  Read More »   Read More in Your Feed This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Quora is the best answer to any question. Unsubscribe from this email.