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Re: by rockemsockem on Monday June 26, 2023 @04:56PM (#36485743)
The FAANG, or MANGA, all vary a ton. It really doesn't make sense to compare them all as if they're remotely the same. They all have a similar hiring process and they're all big (which does wind up causing similar problems), and the similarities usually end there. Even between teams in these companies things can be totally different.

TL;DR don't throw out a basket of companies because you think they're the same

Re: by zug_zug on Monday June 26, 2023 @09:36PM (#36487994)
Yeah not necessarily, but also I don't really see how I could have known what a bad experience fang was gonna be other than trying it myself. People on the inside usually like to pretend they love it (I think so that they can feel 'lucky' to be there) but unless you're on blind or something you aren't gonna know some red flags.

In my case, the place I worked it was like your performance reviews-cycle was something you think about every week of the year. At the startups I've worked for you can think about performance review for a few hours a year -- you'd never not build the exactly what the company needs for perf-review reasons. But it's not like anybody was gonna tell me that in the interview.

Personally I'm not going to try to work at any more fang companies because I just don't think it's worth the risk of going through that again.