--FAANG tier-- Facebook: Too political, disorganized, elitist Amazon: 'nuff said. Harsh culture of algorithmic stack ranking, long hours, low pay. Apple: Secrecy breeds siloed culture, top-down tyrannical, cheap about pay. Netflix: ? Don't they do stack-ranking but it's not as bad as in Amazon or in old Microsoft? Google: Bad product org. Employs top tier talent only to make them work on mundane tasks. Less drama so duller compared to others. Microsoft: Much better than it used to be but pays less and relatively older company and stereotypically less exciting. Maybe Netflix wins. For pure TC probably Google/Facebook win. --Public unicorns-- Uber: Sprawling and disorganized, undertakes massive technical projects that are ill-conceived and lead to massive burnout (like infamous iOS app massive refactoring). Bad ethical reputation. Lyft: Like Uber but smaller, less cutthroat, and less bad ethical reputation. AirBnB: Kind of like the anti-Uber where they go for very positive and non-toxic culture which is good, but imo the vibe is they go too far in that direction and from the outside they seem vaguely cult-like with the positivity. Ethical reputation debatably not great. food delivery companies: In general sounds like a stressful business with a lot but this might be a very wrong take. Square: ? Stripe: Seems pretty positive with a good culture that's not AirBnB cult-like so ? Snap: Was a confusing mess with a confusing product led by a Jobs wannabe like five years ago but seem a lot better now and their stock is on the upswing so ? Twitter: Company culture sounds decent, but culture of people using product is toxic and has some ethical hurdles that comes with that (big tiresome free speech vs. hate speech censorship debate that's very draining). Product also not as hot as it used to be. Dropbox: Old and iterating on same old product so lack of innovation, no idea what the culture is like. Autodesk: Why doesn't Blind ever talk about Autodesk? They own a ton of office space in San Francisco. Salesforce: Ditto. Sounds like a big bureaucratic enterprise dinosaur now like Oracle was back when Benioff left to found it. Atlassian: Sounds like the products are a mess of legacy code and confusingly-designed features to work with. Spotify/Slack/Zoom etc.: No idea. Seem like people don't talk about these companies as much despite being very successful with products that everyone uses. --Up and coming-- Robinhood: Seems very stressful engineering culture. Had some ethical controversies earlier this year but everyone's moved on from $GME since and forgot about that poor kid who mistakenly killed himself because of bad UI. TikTok: You're working for a Chinese company with all of the stereotypical problems that entails. Pretty sure there's tons more.
What do you think about Snap, Instacart, Shopify etc
Facebook: too much money and golden handcuffs. Hard to leave.
When u say too much money how much exactly. 2-3 million ?
It's very easy to make 500-600k for someone with 3-4 YOE if you were in the right place
Netflix - if everyone is the same level, are promotions or career growth a thing?
Facebook -- overly metrics driven to a fault. Good UX gets deprioritized in favor of incremental iterations on one part of the product that improves growth or DAU.
Not as bad as Amazon and their weblab obsessions.
While you’re at it, write one for Getaround as well.
not really worth it. which is the most damning thing
TikTok has some great potential
Want to learn more Square and Stripe’s culture if anyone can share
Square is lit
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Apple is cheap about pay? What!??
Their salaries are compared to Google and Facebook. Better than Amazon at least. All the value is in RSUs. They do match pay if you get competing offers but without them they won't go out of their way to not lowball you.
😂, not sure what OP was thinking