Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s...
by nathan_f77 on Saturday January 19, 2019 @09:44AM
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Oh, that's interesting! I think "fake prestige" might be a bit harsh, and I'm sure that doesn't apply to the very senior engineers who earn > $500k per year.
A few years ago I was contacted by a Google recruiter, but I realized that it was going to be a very junior SRE role, so I wasn't interested in that. I could have put Google on my resume, but that probably wouldn't have been very impressive.
Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s...
by stale2002 on Saturday January 19, 2019 @09:31PM
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I mean, money is money.
It still makes sense to work at one of these places that pay twice as much as everyone else.
Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s...
by warp_factor on Sunday January 20, 2019 @12:07PM
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Do they though? I think that they majority of people at FAANGs are actually taking a salary cut compared to what they could get somewhere else. (anecdotal data from all my friends interviewing).
It is simple offer and demand. The supposed prestige of FAANGs also mean that more people wants to get in and unless they really want you, they would be stupid to overpay you.
In Silicon Valley, everyone knows that it is fake prestige and the fact that you worked for a FAANG doesn't really mean anything. I both know excellent and mediocre candidates coming out of FAANGs. It literally carry no information besides the fact that you are probably more attracted to prestige.