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Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by paxys on Monday May 10, 2021 @06:41PM (#27111762)
You are adjusting too hard in the other direction. "Most" people at FAANG companies are absolutely not miserable. The typical engineer at Google/Facebook works 40 hours a week, gets a good salary and is content with their life.
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Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by reducesuffering on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @03:12AM (#27115145)
The typical FB engineer works 50/hr a week, eats 3 meals a day there, and is stressed out. Their life IS Facebook.

Source: extensive discussion on Blind from FB employees and personally know 5 of them.

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Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by ncn on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @12:12PM (#27131963)
Blind is a cesspool.
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Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by wildfire on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:21AM (#27114827)
> The typical engineer at Google/Facebook works 40 hours a > week, gets a good salary and is content with their life.

Two of three things you've said here are true.

40 hours a week would guarantee you will not be effective.

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Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by paxys on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @02:52AM (#27114984)
I'm not sure if you're trying to say that is too much or too little. In my experience at several such companies, no one is putting in more than 2-4 productive work hours a day.
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Re:Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter by Mauricebranagh on Tuesday May 11, 2021 @04:15AM (#27115534)
Rubbish week on week no one can sustain more than the average work week.
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