After 10 years of experience in tech I have realised that culture is a very important thing to consider while joining any company.
I have worked in msft and amzn and have interviewed with google and fb, from which i can tell a little about their cutlure from an interviewee perspective.
I greatly admire culture of Microsoft and Google, who greatly value academics. My team (turing) in MS had some of the great engineers with an academic mindset, which were upto date with recent research papers and state of art.
Jumped the ship to Amzn (l64 to l6) for a very lucerative TC from 270k to 350k but then soon realized after a year, how happy i was with my life in MS. I was working with some very complex algorithms in a stressfree environment, spent a lot of time with my family and was happy and content.
I definitly started saving more money, but is it really worth it?
I feel FB has the same culture of amzn, to code and ship as fast as you can v/s thinking deeply about a solution. And if you dont code and ship fast, you will be shown an exit door.
Life is not about TC and dick measuring contests. Someone with a tc of 150k might be much happier than someone with a tc of 300k
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WLB, TC, Career Growth you only get to pick two. WTC theorem.
You don't have to go to a top university to be a great engineer.
I worked at a place that mostly hired from "top universities." Those who were hired who didn't go to a top school were better a lot of the time.
Most of the industry, and most teams at msft are not that way.