Having left FAANG in 2012, what I discovered is you become so highly specialized due to the way those orgs have to scale, that you are no longer the "jack of al

Having left FAANG in 2012, what I discovered is you become so highly specialized due to the way those orgs have to scale, that you are no longer the "jack of all trades" type person small-to-medium sized orgs want to hire. For instance, my background is large-scale threat hunting, blue team, red team, penetration testing, APT attribution, and some tool development. I was turned down in a recent interview because I didn't ALSO have reverse engineering experience in addition. At FAANG, we had an entire shop dedicated to just reverse engineering. I ended up joining another large company.