>go to one of the FAANGs
You realize by then, those places will likely be like IBM by then. You'll be the same as a parent wanting their kid to get a job with the local factory, because its what did you so well all these years, and arguing with the kid when they want to do something different, then the factory shuts down in 5 years. What you want is your kid to be versatile enough to go to whatever is the thing by then, and it might not even be a "tech" company. At least not in the traditional sense because at some point all companies are tech companies, especially as time goes on. Even Walmart is a tech company since they only require humans to man the stores to put things on the shelves and drive the trucks at this point.
There's so many consideration. If I want my kids to get STEM degrees and go to one of the FAANGs, they may eventually need to learn how to deal with
> the homework, the cramming, the well-roundedness, the being-forced-to-do-shit
Perhaps that's not exactly what's best for them, but it's a pretty good outcome for me so I don't know how else to look at it.