None are faangs for me. A couple are in major f100 companies and a couple work at SpaceX since they have mechanical engineering roles. The richest guy I know is involved with hft and crypto . He was a really smart cs majorn with like 4 GPA and got his masters within a year of graduating while working full time.
meta
Snowflake
They work for themselves trying to spin up startups, or have already done this repeatedly and sold.
They found their own companies. If the smartest person you know work for a big company, people around you aren’t smart enough.
not too sure about that. sometimes really smart folks like to leverage what a major corp can provide
Unless you are talking about middle aged people, younger talented people would find it boring immediately. Jeff Bezos worked for a big firm too. Even I found it very boring but I had visa issues.
RITEAID
Open AI or their own startup. Some Google.
Sofi
aint that a b, the meche gigabrains got so screwed by their degree/ego. All they needed was one good person to give them decent advice to get the f out of that degree.
anyway, own company and deepmind/(realistically vc firms and is just a figure head at deepmind)
Tesla and Meta