Basically, recognizing real talent, not ideas copied from elsewhere or playing politics etc. Don't limit your answers to just FAANG.
Most, but most value more project and team leadership than individual technical contributions even if critical for a project hence why so many times engineers feel undervalued
Do we use this to book tickets to the companies that promote based on merit?
Funny.... Not!
Facebook is amazingly generous to high performers.
My company doesn't. It's all political here. Guess it's the same with Intel and Microsoft.
Isn't half of GoDaddy from Microsoft? No wonder cultures line up.