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Money, "Impact", resources. This is a very HN comment, but I'm not sure how you can't see why someone would want to work for bigcorp...

by cheeze 7y ago

spaceribs 7y ago
Money: Theres plenty of it elsewhere in our business, especially acting as a third party to these behemoths. Impact: The company seems more interested in restricting our landscape rather than innovating on top of it, what makes you think it's a company that accepts disruption anymore? Resources: All the resources in the world doesn't mean squat if you can't disrupt the existing system.
matwood 7y ago
There is a lot of money out there. And, if you don't have to live near a FAANG the money you do make can go much farther. Does the rank and file really have much impact at one of the FAANG companies? I've talked to some ex-Google employees who left so they could have an impact somewhere. The FAANGs do have effectively infinite resources, but compute has been for the most part democratized. Resources are very inexpensive now.
- steelframe 7y ago
  > if you don't have to live near a FAANG the money you do make can go much farther I have a friend who moved to the Utah/Idaho region, giving up a FAANG job, in order to escape the spiraling cost of living where the FAANG jobs are. I respect that. I'm at my third FAANG living in one of the high-cost-of-living areas of the U.S. In the meantime I'm planning my escape. So long as income vastly outstrips my cost of living, I'm going to keep my FAANG and save like there's no tomorrow, and as soon as the math works out that I can maintain my current quality of life with a combination of a lower-paying job combined with interest on my savings (the proverbial 4% withdrawal rate) in a lower-cost-of-living area of the U.S., I'm out. Er, yeah, less effective application of that figure of speech. You know what I mean.

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Money, "Impact", resources. This is a very HN comment, but I'm not sure how you can't see why someone would want to work for bigcorp...

by cheeze 7y ago

Money, "Impact", resources. This is a very HN comment, but I'm not sure how you can't see why someone would want to work for bigcorp...

spaceribs 7y ago
Money: Theres plenty of it elsewhere in our business, especially acting as a third party to these behemoths. Impact: The company seems more interested in restricting our landscape rather than innovating on top of it, what makes you think it's a company that accepts disruption anymore? Resources: All the resources in the world doesn't mean squat if you can't disrupt the existing system.
matwood 7y ago
There is a lot of money out there. And, if you don't have to live near a FAANG the money you do make can go much farther. Does the rank and file really have much impact at one of the FAANG companies? I've talked to some ex-Google employees who left so they could have an impact somewhere. The FAANGs do have effectively infinite resources, but compute has been for the most part democratized. Resources are very inexpensive now.
- steelframe 7y ago
  > if you don't have to live near a FAANG the money you do make can go much farther I have a friend who moved to the Utah/Idaho region, giving up a FAANG job, in order to escape the spiraling cost of living where the FAANG jobs are. I respect that. I'm at my third FAANG living in one of the high-cost-of-living areas of the U.S. In the meantime I'm planning my escape. So long as income vastly outstrips my cost of living, I'm going to keep my FAANG and save like there's no tomorrow, and as soon as the math works out that I can maintain my current quality of life with a combination of a lower-paying job combined with interest on my savings (the proverbial 4% withdrawal rate) in a lower-cost-of-living area of the U.S., I'm out. Er, yeah, less effective application of that figure of speech. You know what I mean.