SWE saying no to FAANG

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katnguyen

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katnguyen
Feb 23 15 Comments

Are there software engineers who don’t want to work at FAANG companies?

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  • Amazon
    mcbigdaddy

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    mcbigdaddy
    I bet tons of them. Not everyone dreams of big salaries, too much work and corporate life in a crowded city. I know many people turned down interviews from big tech. But I also think there are some people who low key want to work at FAANG but can't clear the bar so they say they trash FAANG
    Feb 23 4
    • Bolt
      aerjgt;laj

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      aerjgt;laj
      Sure that's possible but that's an extreme example. You'll hear people at G/MS/BB claiming they barely work as well. Maybe not only 1 hour a day but I have heard several claim they work 20 hour weeks.

      I guess you're right, if someone really doesn't care about TC much at all and is getting away with working only 1-2 hours a day, I can see them having good reason to stick to that job.

      As for disliking corporate, I was one of those people up until recently. I didn't like anything that was too established, big and corporate. I've only worked at startups my whole career.

      But now I'm starting to realize there's a benefit that comes with the stability of big tech and on average I bet they have much better WLB. Especially now that the tech bubble is sort of bursting and all these highly inflated stocks are crashing back to reality.
      Feb 24
    • Amazon
      mcbigdaddy

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      mcbigdaddy
      Yeap agree. I always like the way of corporate where everyone's job is defined and the goal is clear. I dislike all the big words we use and the corporate lingo but I play the game. Good money and stability pays off for it. Maybe some people deep down are just lazy or afraid of failure. Btw I was at MS working 3-4 hours a day. Like coming to work at 11.30 and leaving at 3pm. It was nice when it lasted. When they first hired me. Project had a set down and they said okay we hired you we gonna pay you but project haven't started yet. So go home. Then they forgot me for like 4 months. Lmao
      Feb 24
  • FanDuel
    peeeep

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    peeeep
    Honestly not many would want to outside of the pay. A lot of competition for fun projects. Most of the people at google i know are working on ads. Theres probably some cool apps but frankly people like faang for the TC
    Feb 23 0
  • Amazon
    Vctr32

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    Vctr32
    Quit Amazon for a non Faang. Doubled my TC
    Feb 23 5
    • Bolt
      aerjgt;laj

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      aerjgt;laj
      There are other companies that pay better than FAANG in the US but not many with liquid stock (Unicorns where like half your TC is inflated paper money doesn't count).

      Also it depends on your definition of FANG. Traditionally it just meant the big 4/5. But a lot of people use the term to refer to big tech in general. And I'd very much consider Coinbase to be a big tech company at this point.
      Feb 24
    • Bolt
      aerjgt;laj

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      aerjgt;laj
      You'll notice people claiming here they don't prefer FAANG are working at another big tech company anyway lol (Square, Coinbase, Uber etc). To me that's basically the same thing.
      Feb 24
  • Box
    engineer73

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    engineer73
    Yes.

    I had more fun at startups than Amazon and Facebook, and would avoid Google after friends’ bad experiences there.
    Feb 23 0
  • Amazon / Eng
    tScH05

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    tScH05
    I don’t
    Feb 23 0