> Let's assume pay is the only parameter in a job offer. It's not. > These companies [FAANG] hire every engineer that meet their criteria. They don't hire an

> Let's assume pay is the only parameter in a job offer. It's not. > These companies [FAANG] hire every engineer that meet their criteria. They don't hire anywhere close to that. Their hiring practices are notoriously capricious. > Most engineer given an offer from one of them would accept it since that is the highest possible offer they can get. I had an offer like this and turned it down because they wouldn't let me work on my open source project. > If there is no talent shortage, these companies should have no open recs or fill them as soon as they're opened because they are the best possible jobs for any engineer. These companies have more money than they know what to do with, and more is coming in all the time. The more they hire, the more things they make, and the more they want to hire.