No, that's just reality. There are vastly more small companies than large in every industry. They all find their niches. Swift Energy still exists even though Shell and Exxon are a million times larger. Do Shell and Exxon have more resources, throw their weight around more, etc? You bet. Are they monopolies? Not in any plausible way I've heard anyone describe.

I can't personally confirm this, but Hacker News abounds with anecdotes about how there are similarly paying non FAANG companies.

It might be if it wasn’t false:

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/05/16/how-to-thrive-...

It will be monopoly if you have no other choices but to work for FAANG, which can't be further from reality.

On the other hand, complaining about FAANG, only after failing their interviews makes it hard to take that person's intention seriously.

Out of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google - Apple's interview process is actually quite gentle. It's definitely the most human focused out of all of them.

I flipped the bird at Facebook and Google, and got frustrated with Amazon's to cancel my interview mid process.

In my understanding, Facebook and Google have centralized interviewing, whereas at Apple each team did its own hiring (my team of ~40 had their own recruiter, did all their own interviews, etc.). Amazon I believe is similar to Apple but the teams are larger? When I interviewed there it was all for the ads org, and there weren't people from other parts of Amazon.

I actually had quite the opposite experience, Apple absolutely grilled me at the spot for its interview, even though I did pass it, but I didn't take their offer.

They definitely grilled me... It's just that they actually had humans talk to me and answer questions, not just throw a website with an automated judge and intentionally confusing problems. (My first language isn't English)

Facebook was very robotic in their process, with a lot of demands for preparation. Google and Amazon aren't that far off.

> just throw a website with an automated judge and intentionally confusing problems

Who did that??? Never heard of automated tests

Amazon did: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13076821

I think Google and Facebook does that for some interns.