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.
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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. Itโs 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.