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greetings /sci/

So I'm an engineer at Intel and as such, I work with a lot of smart people on a daily basis. Recently, something is starting to intrigue me.

Of course, most people in the company are pretty intelligent (the lab technicians are on the lower end of the spectrum but whatever), but whenever I have meetings with "higher ups", my mind is blown. Listening to some of the Senior Principal Engineers talk, and especially the executives, you can tell that they are extremely intelligent. It's almost as if they live on a different plane of existence. I'm sure you know what I mean...it's not hard to tell when someone your talking with is really, very intelligent.

The "regular" engineers (such as myself) I suppose would be considered "smart" by the average person, but once you interface with an executive (chief officers, VP's, directors, etc) it's a whole different game. You're dealing with someone who has incredible mental agility, that can think extremely fast, find patterns and connections very easily in just about anything, learns more rapidly than anyone else you've ever seen, and more. These people are like fucking superhumans.

What is it that creates this type of person? Of course there's genetics, environment, etc. but this shit is very interesting.

tldr; general discussion on intellect and genius-tier people

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>> No.6036685

>executives

>smart
Ohohohohohoho.bsa

>> No.6036689

>>6036685
Keep trying buddy. Maybe one day you'll get min wage job you've been looking for!

>> No.6036694

>>6036689

>not investing in a business degree

>being an uppity egghead that gets dictated like a drone


Make more money than you because someone has to keep you faggots in check. Now back to matlabs with you.

>> No.6036699

>>6036694
>2013
>still shitposting like this

Anyways --
The upper managers that report to the executives are also really smart. Not the same tier as the executives or principal engineers, but definitely up there.

>> No.6036701

>>6036668

No OP. you just lack innovation. Go back to India you curry eating ass.

>> No.6036704

These people are no different from you or I.

Example:

I do work in a branch of astrophysics which involves modeling star evolution. There is a group of six of us. Two of our group have built a linear accelerator to recreate the environment of the inside of post main-stage stars (red giants and the like).

When I look at the accelerator they built I cannot tell you how they came to their design.

Most of physics is plumbing, and to defend that their accelerator is 90% PVC.

I know how to build a similar accelerator but mine would be out of steel and plastics not similar to PVC.

The device works at low energy levels like 50keV but it's results match perfectly to my predictions.

To me two are absolutely brilliant to devise such a radically cheap and easier to move accelerator.

On the contrary, the code I spent a decade working on in accordance with a wide array of individuals across the world, principally in the US and Italy, solves 10 simultaneous differential equations.

These two are very good at practical code building and have had a hand in a few projects of similar nature themselves. They feel the same way about me for the same reason.

You need to stop idolizing people and do something.

>> No.6036706

>>6036699

>Anyways

>not "Anyway"


Go back to school faggot

>> No.6036709

50-90% genetics, the rest is environment.

Of course, you might just be easily impressed by people who have a lot of experience in their field.

>> No.6036710

>>6036704
>You need to stop idolizing people and do something.
What the fuck? I do plenty and am very successful. There's nothing wrong with looking up to people. I just think they're interesting is all.

>> No.6036711

You just don't know what they know.

Like you how to correctly penetrate your gf.

That's why I've been doing it for you, you dumb cunt.

>> No.6036712

who are we talking about, MBA suits or engineers?

>> No.6036714

>>6036709
This.

Op sounds like the type to wet their pants after meeting a senior project lead.


Seriously, get a real job.

>> No.6036715

>>6036712
It depends. The senior principal engineers are fucking geniuses. Same goes for the executives (most of which started as engineers).

I wouldn't make a blanket statement, but the above seems to be the general case.

>> No.6036718

>>6036710

Stop sucking your boss's dick.


/thread

>> No.6036719

>>6036709
>Of course, you might just be easily impressed by people who have a lot of experience in their field.
This is true, but I'm talking about people who are clearly superior in intellect, not just experience.

>> No.6036723

>>6036715

Seriously you sound stupider than shit.

How did you get hired by intel?

>> No.6036722

>>6036719
You have so little faith in yourself.

>> No.6036724

>>6036722
The reality is there are very smart people on this planet. That shit is interesting. I have plenty of faith in myself.

>> No.6036727

>>6036719

It's all relative. But if you think you work with a bunch of smart people. Then you probably aren't that smart to begin with.

>> No.6036730

>>6036727
>not understanding that smart people are capable of acknowledging intelligence in others

>> No.6036731

>>6036724

You are not one of them, and you will never be one of them.

>> No.6036737

>>6036724
There are much less smart people than you seem to think.
There are, however, a great many sociopaths that seem very smart.

Stop thinking everyone that holds the position of "project manager" is smarter than you and you'll realize that you too can do algebra.

>> No.6036738

Au contraire to the faggot behind the OP, I've found through the years that those who I used to look up to as geniuses are nothing other than regular people who invested tremendous amounts of time in studying and perfecting their art with passion. In the end, there's two possibilities, you got lucky (OMFG ZUCKERBEAR IS GENIUSSS) or you got educated.

Its funny how kids on /sci/ still think being "smart" or "succesful" is genetical at any relevant level.

>> No.6036739

>>6036730

I'm pretty sure a dog thinks your a genius.

Doesn't make it so.


Your generalization disturbs me.

>> No.6036740

I guess some of the lead lab techs are pretty smart too, but it's very different with them.

>>6036737
I never said project managers were genius tier.

>> No.6036743

>>6036740
Neither did I.

>> No.6036744

>>6036740

Majority of executives have psychopathic traits.

When you a master at usury, lying and lack almost all empathy, it's easy to believe you you may in the presence of a god. But,that's because they see themselves that way.

You are too easily manipulated.

>> No.6036747

Op, stop riding the ego paths cock.


Thank you.

>> No.6036749

>>6036744
>lack almost all empathy
You couldn't be more wrong. The people hired into executive positions are very keen to others. This is another misconception that people have about what happens inside big corporations like Intel. Once you talk with these people, you realize what's going on.

>> No.6036754

>meets executives

>so smart
>so business success
>wow
>I can be like them someday.


OP, if you think executives are genius, then I have news for you.


Also, no one cares about your new job at intel that you probably won't go anywhere in. You a just another cog in the machine, especially if you think that your superiors are godly intelligent.

>> No.6036755

>>6036749
Funny, I am a lawyer, I work with the big corps, I do the dirty DIRTY shit, I know the lawyers who defend their white collar crimes (those that fuck up the rest of society, specially the lwoer classes abused by illegal contracts, unilateral repactation of debts, abusive clauses and flat out economic crimes). I am the lawyer who litigates their shit, the guy that defends the interest of the corporation against weak states (think mining companies against shitty states on foreign investment disputes). I know those people, I know the young blood that enters the companies and will one day be that people (they are my friends).

You are full of shit, and I do not care how much you defend intel or whoever's cock you're riding, either you're the exception to the rule or too stupid to see reality.

>> No.6036759

A lot of the "regular" engineers are brilliant too. You can tell they're going to climb the corporate ladder, but just don't have the experience quite yet (newhires, etc)

>> No.6036761

>>6036755
Notice I am not making a value claim, it is how it is and nobody cares whether I think its right or not.

Also, people at jobs are the most cynical of assholes, once you start getting to know them you'll see how they are in real life.

>> No.6036765

>>6036759
OP, are you advertising?

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6036767

>engineers
You just want their dicks but you haven't realized it yet.

>> No.6036776

>>6036754

All you need is doge

This.

>> No.6036777

>>6036765
>intel
>come post about how great it is to work there on a science board

Just in case, I'll make sure to shed some truth about the real world.

>> No.6036781

>>6036761

You were making a claim, you scummy retard waste of a human.

Leave /sci/ and never come back

>> No.6036791

>>6036776
corporate freshman doge.

>> No.6036803

they're smart but they're also experienced. corporations should raise their own workforce of super smart people.

>> No.6036804

>>6036803
That's kind of how it works here. Many engineers are brought in as interns and Intel sort of "breeds" them into super-engineers.

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>> No.6036827

>>6036814
He makes a pretty valid point. Microsoft has always been very sporadic with how they go about technology advances.

>> No.6036897

>>6036781
Y so mad, dummy? The world works like that "like shit", which can be good or bad, depends. on how you define shit.