How challenging FAANG in Bay Area in terms of work?

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pathtofang

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pathtofang
Feb 23, 2020 9 Comments

Hi Blinders, I am in TN right now making decent salary. I have 8 years of experience but I feel like most of the time I worked for very simple CRUD web apps with some or little business challenges. I am at this point where I want some challenging problems to work on. I do get emails from recruitors from FB, Amazon and Google as well to apply. I feel like I am above enginners but do get scared. How is work at FAANG is it really hard, I do feel I can do enough LCs and probably get job in one too but feel like it will be really struggle to remain there where I have to conplete with people who have been working there for 4-5 years. May be someone who was in same boat can eleborate. I am tarkering L4 / E4.

TC: 160k Nashville
YOF: 8 yrs.
Full Stack with Node and React most of my career.

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  • Apple
    CGEX77

    Go to company page Apple

    CGEX77
    Some observations:

    The average FAANG engineering work can be done by most average engineers.

    The high level work cannot.

    While in normal companies you will have a responsibility ceiling and thus a pay ceiling, in FAANG you can keep getting bigger and bigger responsibility and thus your pay ceiling is unlimited.

    At these higher levels of responsibility, we need people that can operate autonomously hence the emphasis on algs, LC, and fundamentals.

    At these higher levels of responsibility, the work is more challenging but the high caliber of people and tools around you make it easy. Itโ€™s a balance. Effectively we have made something challenging into something less so by not hiring normies.

    TLDR if we hired one normie we would likely be fine and that normie would likely not find the work challenging; if we dropped the hiring bar to hire all normies then the company would collapse.
    Feb 23, 2020 1
    • New
      pathtofang

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      pathtofang
      OP
      Great answer
      Feb 23, 2020
  • Honey / Eng
    newoffice

    Go to company page Honey Eng

    newoffice
    Just gotta pass the tests. Nothing special about most of faang folks.
    Feb 23, 2020 1
    • New
      pathtofang

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      pathtofang
      OP
      No it just. I pass a test then I have to work as well I am just scared like whatif I would be in PIP and then look for another job you know.
      Feb 23, 2020
  • Tesla
    ๐Ÿ‰โ›ˆ

    Go to company page Tesla

    ๐Ÿ‰โ›ˆ
    Itโ€™s all the same. Stop being scared and just do it.
    Feb 23, 2020 1
    • New
      pathtofang

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      pathtofang
      OP
      Thanks Tesla for those words.
      Feb 23, 2020
  • Amazon
    Llwu77

    Go to company page Amazon

    Llwu77
    The work at most companies is the same. Doesnโ€™t require much besides average IQ.faang will give you more automated internal tooling. But the actual work is whatever (unless youโ€™re on a research team but those generally require phds etc). The difference is that FAANG interviews are harder, and requires a lot of preparation. This leads to the people you work with are generally quite ambitious, hard workers, โ€œsmarterโ€. The work is whatever lol
    Feb 23, 2020 1
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      6wolf

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      Raytheon
      6wolf
      Did you work at non-fang before? Itโ€™s all the same then work wise ๐Ÿค”
      Feb 23, 2020
  • I worked on the east coast at roles that didn't require much brain function. Then I moved west and discovered a whole new world. It was like opening your eyes for the first time. No ragrets, would do again.
    Feb 23, 2020 0