Blinders, Which of these companies is the most valuable on resume? TC: 195/0/20
Why a stepping stone these are two different industries? Although there are some games developed by FANG
Transferable skills. Facebook has Oculus, Google has Daydream/Stadia/ARCore, Amazon has Sumerian/Lumberyard/Visual Search, Microsoft has HoloLens, Apple has ARKit. With the exception of FB, most companies like to see some understanding of the product space.
Why not just go to FANG directly if that's the goal? it's honestly significantly easier to join the company at a random team and then internal transfer.
None. Don’t go to any gaming company.
Niantic has a lot of people from Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook. Usually people make the transition the other way (FAANG to Niantic). I know only about 4 people who left in last 2 years for FAANG. The interviews are on par with Google.
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These seem better than just stepping stones. Plenty of people from FANG interested in jumping to one of those companies. Guessing any one of them will easily get you a FANG interview, it’s probably more about where you want to build experience (engine, game experiences, multiplayer infra, etc)
Why anyone from FANG would wanna go to a gaming company?
I have no idea of the day to day of working there, but from the outside Epic looks like one of the best positioned companies to pave the way towards the Metaverse vision. A lot of people I talk to share a similar viewpoint to what’s laid out here https://www.matthewball.vc/all/themetaverse
Definitely Niantic, it’s part of Google
I believe Niantic became independent in 2015. Certainly originated from Google.
Ah you’re right. But I believe they still use Google’s stack and processes in their development from looking at a few of their job descriptions which might be more transferable