Re:My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley...
by TulliusCicero on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:44PM
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FAANG companies offer a bunch of things:
* Excellent pay
* Good benefits
* Stability
* Prestige (looks good on resume/opens doors later)
* Smart coworkers
* Huge customer bases
* Lots of internal transfer opportunities
* Well established competence in handling foreign hires
Now, obviously plenty of companies offer a lot of those things too...but not many offer all of them.
And even then, often there's the visibility issue: maybe there's a bunch of ~200 person companies that do, in fact, offer the same things -- but will {Random Engineer X} actually be aware of that? With a company like Google, where I work, there's been enough written about it to have a decent idea of what you're getting into before you even apply. Discoverability is a bigger challenge with smaller companies.
* Excellent pay
* Good benefits
* Stability
* Prestige (looks good on resume/opens doors later)
* Smart coworkers
* Huge customer bases
* Lots of internal transfer opportunities
* Well established competence in handling foreign hires
Now, obviously plenty of companies offer a lot of those things too...but not many offer all of them.
And even then, often there's the visibility issue: maybe there's a bunch of ~200 person companies that do, in fact, offer the same things -- but will {Random Engineer X} actually be aware of that? With a company like Google, where I work, there's been enough written about it to have a decent idea of what you're getting into before you even apply. Discoverability is a bigger challenge with smaller companies.