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> "Yes and often startups are the ones taking a risk to solve more challenging problems with technology versus the FAANG like companies who operate in large or
by ThrowawayR2 7y ago
> "Yes and often startups are the ones taking a risk to solve more challenging problems with technology versus the FAANG like companies who operate in large or multiple markets that have predictable money in them for example ads or e-commerce."
Never worked a FAANG, I see. They have plenty of risky projects with challenging technology problems that they spin up to try to enter new markets. You don't hear about most of them because, like most startups, they often don't work out and die quietly.
- opportune 7y agoA lot of FAANG engineers also work on infra, OS, security, private/public cloud, tooling, etc. which have impacts on the company bottom line but aren’t necessarily visible as external products. It’s not just 100 people doing ads and 30,000 other people playing ping pong and trying to outsmart each other with Haskell.
- Grimm1 7y agoThat's nice, except the majority of FAANG engineers will never see one of those projects.