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Answer: For engineers and technical talent, Google does not make the top 10 pa.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest Is Google the highest paying software company in Silicon Valley? Chris Bolte, CEO/Co-Founder of www-paysa-com - helping employees maximize their market value Written Oct 6 For engineers and technical talent, Google does not make the top 10 paying companies - currently ranked #22 (avg pay of $247k) across all companies. Here is list of top 10 across the us, as of today. See the whole list here.  Read More » What is the biggest culture shock you have ever faced? Ethan McNamara Updated Sep 23 My biggest culture shock was in the United States after I had lived there all my life for 14 years. It was when I found out that these rice cookers are not very common to have in a house. Growing up half Fillipino, I had one at my house, and all of my relatives had one. I remember it really well. It was Eigth Grade Spanish class, our assignment was to explain a recipe in Spanish, of course I was...  Read More » Should you get a PhD only if you're very passionate about your field of study? Kaicheng Liang, grad student Updated Nov 27, 2012 I hear this bandied about a lot, but I don't think 'passion' is a good indicator of whether you should do a PhD. 'Passion' is an incredibly nebulous, ephemeral, and subjective concept, and is indicative of nothing. You are 'passionate' about something only because you have been lucky enough in your life thus far to taste early success in that area, so you want to pursue that area further to ... Read More » If the AK-47 is supposedly the best firearm, why doesn't the US military use it? Robert Clouse Written Oct 10 The AK-47 is cheap, very reliable, and simple to train and maintain. It has been said the first child's weapon should be a AK-47, because almost impossible make it not work. It is very effective in combat, but not the best in every way. Most weapons from the M-16 forward are lighter that. The AK-47 is good at short range, but not longer ranges, as it is not accurate at longer ranges compared to ...  Read More » What is the best thing you have ever heard a teacher say? Dale Griggs Written Oct 5 I was in my 7th grade health class and the teacher asked, “What is the speed of a nerve impulse when it travels to the brain?” I had read an article about that at one time and the teacher asked me, “What is your answer?” I replied, “Four miles per hour.” The whole class erupted in laughter and the derision . I thought I was correct in my answer but after everyone in the class did that, I lost s...  Read More » Mary E. Rossow upvoted this answer. If you put two people with a high IQ together, are there any traits they are likely to share? Jake Williams, IQ 148, if I wasn't a narcissist I'd be perfect. Updated Oct 5 By high I'm assuming over 145. With my own experience, and with my interactions with people with such IQs, they are likely but not guaranteed to share traits such as: Analytical behaviour. Trying to figure things out. Could be described as curiosity, nosiness, or overthinking. Fast information processing in at least one area. For me it's mathematical information for the most part, but other people...  Read More » Has Sundar Pichai ruined Google? Syed Usama Ahmed, Indian in Canada Written Sep 29 It's been almost a year since Google restructured itself, creating Alphabet and handing the CEO reigns of Google proper to Sundar Pichai. By nearly all accounts Pichai is a wildly popular CEO. Still, while its boss is highly respected, working for Google these days isn't exactly perfect, some Googlers complain. Here's a rundown on what it's like to work with Pichai directly, and what some Googlers...  Read More » There are almost 6 million job openings in the US. Why are Trump supporters not getting these jobs instead of complaining there are no jobs available? Robert Dixon, reader, writer, editor, interested in (almost) everything. Updated Sep 20 Because you're not going to convince a guy whose family spent three generations on a manufacturing line in Detroit that he should uproot his family and move to Austin, sign up for community college classes on how to program Java, a take a job at half the pay and benefits he used to get. He's an American, too. He worked hard his whole life to achieve the American Dream, just like everybody said ...  Read More » Mary E. Rossow upvoted this answer. Have you ever kicked a customer out of a restaurant? Ben Skirvin, Journalist and Philosopher Written Jun 29, 2015 Not a restaurant, but a store. A few years back, I was working at a Borders. This story involved the worst customers I've ever personally seen. A woman came into the store with her four kids. One of the kids was in a stroller. The others each had a razor scooter which their mother allowed them to ride around the store. They had been playing a game of tag out in the mall area. When their moth... Read More » What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever said in a foreign language by accident? Mike Beattie, Entrepreneur, musician, engineer, businessman. Updated Sun In Spanish, if you have a cold, or a blocked up nose, you are “constipado”. So my wife’s cousin is Spanish, and she came to visit us. And I hadn’t been to the toilet for like 10 days. Things were getting a bit serious. But by coincidence, I also had cold. So when she arrived, we had a beer and stuff, then she said “Mike, estás constipado?” Which meant “have you got a cold”. But I didn’t know the w...  Read More »   Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). If you don't want to receive these emails in the future, please unsubscribe.