I left Cisco to join Facebook 7 months ago. I was making $210k/year on 20h/w and life was great. I could spend time with my wife and daughter. FB wlb has been mess, doing 50h+/w, high stress and barely getting meets all (avg) which I am told is great for E5. if this is what FANG is about then Working for FANG is overrated..per hour I make less money now.
TC: $360k. E5
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And complaining about 50 hours per week for 360 TC?!? Some people at non-fangs and other fangs work the same hours for peanuts.
It also depends on how good you are. There are a lot of smart people at FB working 40 hours per week making exceeds.
Focus your work better and cut down on the hours.
Once you figure out what's impactful there is no real need to work this much. In fb you dont get much credit for doing a lot of small things.
You need to focus on very few things that really matter and do them well, delrieotize everything else - hang out with kid.
(I have kids and I hang out with them quite a bit)
As I commented before - the 6+ crowd is the best at identifying and focusing on high impact projects.
Counter to the outcries above, there is no inherent conflict between impact and code quality. Impact is what pays the bills and is the only reason people in this industry get paid so much.
Coming from the startups world I find the people talking about "beautiful code" a bit ridiculous and like they live in a bubble. The slow moving culture of many of the other large companies is not a system that works, it's just the ineffective engineers getting subsidized by the people in the company that actually do the work that matters (the work people did in the past to build the cash cows).
The industry isn't built to make engineers happy. Engineers are the ones that need to find ways to be both effective and enjoy themselves.
Facebook can afford to pay more because when they do the math, an engineer makes them more money than engineers in other companies