S-Tier Career
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The Roam Team is composed exclusively of individuals who have demonstrated an S-Tier Achievement in their respective category or domain.
The Roam Team is composed exclusively of individuals who have demonstrated an S-Tier Achievement in their respective category or domain.
Western students may be shocked to learn that students in Japan who earn an A+ have not achieved the highest possible grade.
Rarely, for an exemplary, gifted, or brilliant performance, a Japanese student is awarded an “S”, represented by the Japanese character 秀 (shū).
In tier lists, the term “S-Tier” has evolved to represent the highest, most exceptional, best-in-category people, strategies, or achievements in a context.
Rarely, for an exemplary, gifted, or brilliant performance, a Japanese student is awarded an “S”, represented by the Japanese character 秀 (shū).
In tier lists, the term “S-Tier” has evolved to represent the highest, most exceptional, best-in-category people, strategies, or achievements in a context.
| Grade | Scale | Grade Description | US Grade | Notes |
| S | 90.00 - 100.00 | Exemplary (秀) | A+ | Rarely given |
| A+ | 90.00 - 100.00 | Exemplary (秀 • Shū) | A+ | |
| A | 80.00 - 89.99 | Very Good (優 • Yū) | A | |
| B | 70.00 - 79.99 | Good (良 • Ryō) | B | |
| C | 60.00 - 69.99 | Satisfactory (可 • Ka) | C | |
| F | 0.00 - 59.99 | Fail (不可 • Fuka) | F | |
| P | Pass (パス) | P |
“Talent is important, but practice is what makes you improve. No matter how talented you are, if you don’t put in the effort, you won’t get better.”
Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok
Korean Gamer
The category S-Tier Achievements need not be limited to the domain of Roam’s vision to build the office of the future. They are broad and can include:
Examples of S-Tier Achievement
- Placing or participating in a national STEM competition like the computer science competition like National Computing Olympiad or a math competition (like USAMO)
- Founding a business that was accepted into Y Combinator or received venture funding. It may or may not have been successful.
- Admission to TJHSST from 1986 until 2020
- Achieving a 3x year streak of President’s Club in Sales at a company
- Winning a college sports championship
- Completing an Ironman competition
- Selection as a Rhodes, Marshall, or Fulbright Scholar
- Completing elite military training programs (US Navy Seal, Army Ranger, Air Force Pilot)
- Reaching a Grandmaster rank in Chess
- Mastery of a musical instrument
- Winning an Election
- Obtaining an advanced degree in a STEM field like mathematics or physics (or both)
- Obtaining a STEM degree from an elite technical institution such as MIT, IIT or CMU
- Playing a Professional Sport
- Being an Eagle Scout
- Teach for America
- Winning a Design Award
- Publishing a book or a critically acclaimed musical album
- Writing a Broadway or Off-Broadway musical
- A significant technical achievement or a notable patent
- Winning a video game competition
- Placing in a Rubik’s Cube competition
- Earning a Thiel Fellowship
- Nomination for a Nobel Prize (need not win)
- Being a very early key individual at successful growth company, rising the ranks to executive, but wish to get back to more hands-on IC work.
“I think the key thing is that we hire people who are better than us. You want to hire people who are smarter than you are, who have more talent than you do, because you want to build a company that’s greater than the sum of its parts.”
Steve Jobs
Former CEO, Apple