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Reading articles like this always makes me wonder where all this crazy drama is going on. I work at one of FAANG, and I go in each day, code/analyze things fro

Reading articles like this always makes me wonder where all this crazy drama is going on. I work at one of FAANG, and I go in each day, code/analyze things from 8-5, chat with some people about their cycling or cooking hobbies, then go home. If people are having affairs and flying to resorts, then I'm just totally oblivious to it. Either that, or I'm the most boring 28 year old that works there.

anoncareer0212 7y ago
same, and I can't lie, it kind of makes me sad. Going from working at a restaurant to working at a FAANG made me sooooo bored, the people are all NPCs except for the one time a year they show emotion or communicate about their values
demosthenes14 7y ago
I work at msft and wonder where this drama is too...
MuffinFlavored 7y ago
how hard is it to work at FAANG and do you make $300k/yr* total comp?
duxup 7y ago
I think to some extent the drama people find each other and only see other drama people so it seems like "everyone is doing it". I was told by someone once about how much drama there was in our office... I was pretty sure we worked in the most boring office ever, but I finally figured out that a small group of people happened to find each other, conflict, immature decisions followed. It wasn't the office that was full of drama ...
CydeWeys 7y ago
I actually saw some of this first-hand at a previous consulting job. One of our contracts in Phoenix was rowdy with drinking and strip clubs, and one of my coworkers got busted for DUI and had to live in Sheriff Arpaio's tent city jail for many weeks of nights and weekends (he was on work release during the day!). He was probably our cheapest consultant at that point, since he wasn't billing hotels or dinners. I'm at a FAANG now and it's very boring. Someone died at my office recently and some random uninformed online comment was trying to blame it on widespread Adderall abuse, which is so disconnected from how things actually are at the office.
bsder 7y ago
> Either that, or I'm the most boring 28 year old that works there. You are, presumably, male and doing technical tasks. It's much easier to get into drama when you are a 1) young female, whom lots of people want to interact with, hired to do 2) marketing, where your job is to be extremely social with semi-strangers. This is simply the way of the world.
- johntiger1 7y ago
  Spot on, different roles and different "reasons" let's say
- askafriend 7y ago
  Excellent point and well made.
- carmate383 7y ago
  Want more attention at a tech company? Simply slice off your penis and call yourself a lady.
  - sctb 7y ago
    Since you're mostly just breaking the guidelines, we've banned this account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
com2kid 7y ago
None of the engineering teams I was on at MS had any of this stuff going on. Heck I was surprised she was being flown first class, with all the cutbacks everyone I know at MS for the last ~4 years has been flying coach even for their first N international flights each year! (I forget what N is.)
- seanmcdirmid 7y ago
  Sales people often fly biz class because their customers are. I don't know if it is the same here, and overseas offices have different rules than Redmond (MS China we never got biz class even though many of us flew way more than N times a year on 12 hour flights).
  - com2kid 7y ago
    Friend of mine in auditing had her pre-arrivial days to resolve jetlag cut. Because that's who you want reviewing the books, someone who can barely keep their head up... Penny wise and all that. (My info is several years old, hopefully that policy was changed back!)
    - Agathos 7y ago
      > Because that's who you want reviewing the books, someone who can barely keep their head up... Depending on how carefully I've been keeping those books, quite possibly :)

anoncareer0212 7y ago

same, and I can't lie, it kind of makes me sad. Going from working at a restaurant to working at a FAANG made me sooooo bored, the people are all NPCs except for the one time a year they show emotion or communicate about their values

demosthenes14 7y ago

I work at msft and wonder where this drama is too...

MuffinFlavored 7y ago

how hard is it to work at FAANG and do you make $300k/yr* total comp?

duxup 7y ago

I think to some extent the drama people find each other and only see other drama people so it seems like "everyone is doing it". I was told by someone once about how much drama there was in our office... I was pretty sure we worked in the most boring office ever, but I finally figured out that a small group of people happened to find each other, conflict, immature decisions followed. It wasn't the office that was full of drama ...

CydeWeys 7y ago

I actually saw some of this first-hand at a previous consulting job. One of our contracts in Phoenix was rowdy with drinking and strip clubs, and one of my coworkers got busted for DUI and had to live in Sheriff Arpaio's tent city jail for many weeks of nights and weekends (he was on work release during the day!). He was probably our cheapest consultant at that point, since he wasn't billing hotels or dinners. I'm at a FAANG now and it's very boring. Someone died at my office recently and some random uninformed online comment was trying to blame it on widespread Adderall abuse, which is so disconnected from how things actually are at the office.

bsder 7y ago

> Either that, or I'm the most boring 28 year old that works there. You are, presumably, male and doing technical tasks. It's much easier to get into drama when you are a 1) young female, whom lots of people want to interact with, hired to do 2) marketing, where your job is to be extremely social with semi-strangers. This is simply the way of the world.

johntiger1 7y ago
Spot on, different roles and different "reasons" let's say
askafriend 7y ago
Excellent point and well made.
carmate383 7y ago
Want more attention at a tech company? Simply slice off your penis and call yourself a lady.
- sctb 7y ago
  Since you're mostly just breaking the guidelines, we've banned this account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

com2kid 7y ago

None of the engineering teams I was on at MS had any of this stuff going on. Heck I was surprised she was being flown first class, with all the cutbacks everyone I know at MS for the last ~4 years has been flying coach even for their first N international flights each year! (I forget what N is.)

seanmcdirmid 7y ago
Sales people often fly biz class because their customers are. I don't know if it is the same here, and overseas offices have different rules than Redmond (MS China we never got biz class even though many of us flew way more than N times a year on 12 hour flights).
- com2kid 7y ago
  Friend of mine in auditing had her pre-arrivial days to resolve jetlag cut. Because that's who you want reviewing the books, someone who can barely keep their head up... Penny wise and all that. (My info is several years old, hopefully that policy was changed back!)
  - Agathos 7y ago
    > Because that's who you want reviewing the books, someone who can barely keep their head up... Depending on how carefully I've been keeping those books, quite possibly :)