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There seems to be an elitism when it comes to working for faang. there are a ton of people that have zero interest in building advertising engines or living in
by paulie_a 7y ago
There seems to be an elitism when it comes to working for faang. there are a ton of people that have zero interest in building advertising engines or living in the Bay area. Quite frankly my min salary for having to live there sacrifice working on something interesting with be mid to high 6 figures so I could save and move the hell away after a few years. I'd consider it a life sacrifice to endure the bay area and culture.
- hashhar 7y agoI agree with your points but just want to add my anecdotal experience here from India that not all companies with great internal tooling are unicorns. They generally tend to be the slow but steadily moving companies who take their time and think about sustainability rather than 10x growth.
- lifeisstillgood 7y agoYes. And I might suggest that the unicorns with great tooling just lucked out and has engineers who built great stuff irrespective of management
- Youden 7y agoI feel similarly but I find it to be the Bay Area that's the problem rather than FAANG. All those startups and unicorns being in one place makes people see the Bay Area as some kind of software engineering Mecca and I think engineers based there subconsciously see themselves as superior for being a part of it, especially given the high pay. If you go to another city or even better another country, even in the same company, things are very different. Having done so, I would never return to the Bay Area except for the reason you mentioned: to pile up enough money to leave it again.