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Reality check: Most of those at FAANG companies are writing CRUD apps or fixing trivial bugs or improving the performance of selling ads by .1%. Yes, the code i

Reality check: Most of those at FAANG companies are writing CRUD apps or fixing trivial bugs or improving the performance of selling ads by .1%. Yes, the code is deployed widely, but most of what people are doing is still menial. Additionally, if you follow HN news, you might realize that while FAANGs are having a "real impact on the world", that impact is largely negative. I wouldn't build your life satisfaction on your job/career. Do what makes you money, clock in your time and get your check. Then put your real mental investment into a side project that intrigues you. And if you're lucky, someday someone will pay you for it.

lm28469 7y ago
People don't seem to understand that. You maybe have 5% of the engineers/researchers doing the really technical stuff and breakthroughs, the rest is an army of average devs doing the implementations and grunt work. The bad part is that somehow people started to think that working for FAANGs is the end goal in itself. I still remember a colleague of mine who left our startup to go work for Amazon, between his application and his first day he got affected to another team and ended up working on shitty legacy Perl projects and being on call during weekends... Every single aspects of his work was worst than before but hey, he worked for Amazon™️