Re:Ask HN: What interests you to work at a FAANG
by mikekchar on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @08:09AM
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Upside:
Paycheck. Near infinite runway. Career path. Resources to potentially work on crazy projects that are really risky but might have big paybacks. A large pool of developers from which you will almost certainly find a couple with similar interests to yourself.
Downside:
Massive company. Massive beaurocracy. Massive politics. A lot of people only work there in the hopes of funneling money into their pockets. A lot of people only work their in order to feel good about their resume. Good chance that you will be stuck in a group somewhere getting ground under the foot of someone on a power trip. People, people everywhere and none of them are like me (well there are -- see upsides -- but they are needles in a haystack). Oddly, people see FAANG on your resume and think you are a lackluster money-digger -- especially if you stayed there a long time.
/me is old enough to have worked at one of the biggest, richest companies in the world that nobody now has ever heard of (because it disappeared under a pile of accounting fraud -- did I mention the people funneling money into their pockets?)
Re:Ask HN: What interests you to work at a FAANG
by mikekchar on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:12PM
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Nortel, actually :-) I spent a fair amount of time in Silicon Valley North (which I suspect is no longer referred to by that title, or has moved to a new location...)
Paycheck. Near infinite runway. Career path. Resources to potentially work on crazy projects that are really risky but might have big paybacks. A large pool of developers from which you will almost certainly find a couple with similar interests to yourself.
Downside:
Massive company. Massive beaurocracy. Massive politics. A lot of people only work there in the hopes of funneling money into their pockets. A lot of people only work their in order to feel good about their resume. Good chance that you will be stuck in a group somewhere getting ground under the foot of someone on a power trip. People, people everywhere and none of them are like me (well there are -- see upsides -- but they are needles in a haystack). Oddly, people see FAANG on your resume and think you are a lackluster money-digger -- especially if you stayed there a long time.
/me is old enough to have worked at one of the biggest, richest companies in the world that nobody now has ever heard of (because it disappeared under a pile of accounting fraud -- did I mention the people funneling money into their pockets?)