Advice I Have for People That Are Younger Than Me (I am 22) — Anushka De
Pursue what your environment at is good at. For example, if you attend a university with an exceptional computer science program, study computer science. If you work at a technology company, try to be a software engineer that is working on their core technology and if you’re working at a bank, be a banker. With regard to a career specifically, this can be achieved using these two heuristics: There are software engineers at banks and there are finance teams at technology companies. There are humanities majors at exceptional engineering schools and vice versa. I see value in all of this. In my experience, however, the quality of resources, mentorship, and talent working within the department that a university most excels in or within the core value proposition that business is built around tends to be the highest. One referral is worth a hundred applications. This truth, of course, scales in importance as you get more senior and have actually worked in corporate settings with the people