Yes, the opportunities are possible, but exceptional.

For the most part, you will be wiring crud APIs or trying to figure out why your button is misaligned by 12 pixels. Those problems also pay better too, bc those are business problems. The hackerrank problems have mostly been solved.

Think about that - you think Ed Dijkstra or Tony Hoare ever made more than a facebook swe?

Tony Hoare works at Microsoft as a Principal Researcher, as well as having won over 5 million dollars just in awards. I'm quite sure he makes more than a Facebook SWE.

Dijkstra won a similar amount of money in prizes and worked at UT Austin which according to their 1985 docket paid 110k a year ($287,418.96 adjusted for inflation) and also worked in private industry in a research role, so once again... likely made more than a FB SWE.

Alrigt, alright, I stand corrected. Here's your upvote.

You're still right overall though. Most programmers don't get to use the theory they (should still) know

Picking 2 famous computer scientists was not a good comparison on my part. I'll own that.

If you are THE Walter Bright, I have no doubt you have. Respect

There can be only one.