Memes and shitposts are allowed , just in the comments . The moment we allow those at post level this place starts to cater itself to the lowest common denominator and there are other forums where Oiler fans can already do that . The sub we have here is smart and funny and as mods we ' re simply members of the community trying to keep the level of discourse elevated with the added effect to possibly move that centre as well . We ' re taken seriously enough in the Oilogosphere that we can do AMAs with authorities like Gene Principe , Jason Gregor and Bob Stauffer . If this place was a memeshitpost factory there ' s no way stuff like that happens . <| sep |> My list only contains companies that are still considered very selective in the present . I ' m sure those companies you mentioned were fairly competitive in the past , but likely not to the level of top quant finance firms and tech startups today with the exception of NASA .