Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this?

Re:Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this? by sokoloff on Thursday July 23, 2020 @12:53PM (#23929350)

I loved every week (though not every hour) of my computer programming jobs. I literally do it for free in my spare time and here some fools are willing to pay me handsomely to do it at their little glass and concrete spreadsheet/Powerpoint mine. The only "catch" is I have to work on problems they pick instead of ones I pick. Sounds fair enough to me; where do I sign?!

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Re:Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this? by coolspot on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:17PM (#23929668)

Yeah, I think lots of engineers feel the same.

We just love to solve puzzles, coincidentally this is also well paid.

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Re:Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this? by vegesm on Thursday July 23, 2020 @01:42PM (#23929974)

What GP meant is that after 5 years, you are just solving the same puzzles again and again.

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Re:Ask HN: Is all of FAANG like this? by Godel_unicode on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:32PM (#23931325)

If you feel this way then maybe programming isn't for you. Which is fine. But that doesn't make it that way for other people.

There are a large number of programmers in this world, there's room for there to both be tons of people who love their jobs and tons of people who hate them.

You should ask yourself, though: why are you arguing so hard against other people, who you don't know, enjoying their jobs? Why is it so important to you that this myth of happiness be debunked?

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