Best tech stack among big tech companies?

Apple / Eng
phase

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Apr 14 15 Comments

Which big tech company tech stack is most enjoyable/effective to work with? Which is most relevant/transferable for startups outside of big tech?

Tech stacks aside, which companies overall have the least amount of peculiar-to-here stuff you have to deal with? IMO Apple has a lot culture-wise, even if it's not all in the tech stacks.

Meta: Right now I'd say React and PyTorch are good libraries, but I don't know how much people at Meta actually use them.

Amazon: AWS is used by many startups, and it's my understanding that Amazon uses their own products internally.

Apple: if you work on iOS, there's some transferability in Xcode knowledge, Swift/Objective-C skills, and framework familiarity to app development.

Appreciate comments explaining why, for each company.

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  • Financial Services Company
    hgyxky

    Financial Services Company

    hgyxky
    Amazon is the only right answer. Aws has 40% market share.

    All others have proprietary tech which is not useful outside, concept will be useful of course.

    That is why in system design they donโ€™t care about specific tech.

    Whet can be done to overcome this? Working on open source systems that is parallel to systems at work? Like borg vs k8s

    Also tech stack lock in is employee retention
    Apr 14 4
    • Meta
      Spring ๐ŸŒท

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      Spring ๐ŸŒท
      How did you work at amazon and not know that a significant amount of teams were on MAWS? Did you ever touch an LPT script :O
      Apr 14
    • Financial Services Company
      hgyxky

      Financial Services Company

      hgyxky
      I am telling my experience, i worked on an internal team not on aws. Didnt touch LPT script. Also i have seen a lot of push go be on native aws.
      Apr 14
  • JPMorgan Chase / Eng
    OldNo7

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    EAB
    OldNo7
    In my opinion itโ€™s Netflix. You get to work on AWS along with Spring Boot, NodeJS, Python

    Also Netflix has developed some really good open source projects which are industry standards โ€” Zuul, Eureka, Hystrix, Ribbon
    Apr 14 4
  • Google
    UWOM24

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    UWOM24
    Google!? Wtf. What do you use in Google that you can also use in a startup?
    Apr 14 1
    • Apple / Eng
      phase

      Go to company page Apple Eng

      phase
      OP
      The way I asked my question, I did intend to allow companies to "win" the poll even if their stack isn't transferable if it makes up for it with merit. But I do wish people would explain *why* they vote so we can tell the difference.

      Personally I find it hard to imagine proprietary solutions being so much better (for engineer experience, not product) than open source ones these days so as to overpower the transferability value.
      Apr 14
  • Amazon
    !HexBug

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    !HexBug
    Blinders see Google, Blinders vote Google. Doesnโ€™t matter what the poll is.
    Apr 14 0
  • Who tf is voting Google
    Apr 14 0