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While each company has some unique qualities, my guess is that being an engineer in any of these places would be pretty similar and include:
* A lot of engineers and teams
* Lots of organizational / promo based manuevering and social engineering
* Problems at scale - some technology, but mainly "number of cooks in the kitchen"
* Work which might not be very interesting
* high compensation
My guess is that the OP's concerns would hold true at most of these big tech places that pay top dollar.
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While each company has some unique qualities, my guess is that being an engineer in any of these places would be pretty similar and include:
* A lot of engineers and teams
* Lots of organizational / promo based manuevering and social engineering
* Problems at scale - some technology, but mainly "number of cooks in the kitchen"
* Work which might not be very interesting
* high compensation
My guess is that the OP's concerns would hold true at most of these big tech places that pay top dollar.