Having worked in a FAANG and in consulting for normal companies. Yes, vender ops is the mainstream model that bings most value for normal companies. However, it

Having worked in a FAANG and in consulting for normal companies. Yes, vender ops is the mainstream model that bings most value for normal companies. However, it's a bit disenginous as even in FAANG stuff was mostly built from infra Lego sourced from someone else's engineering. So there was a quite a high amount of internal vendor's too, but the quality was much less hit and miss. But it's really only a path the FAANG can walk, being absurdly expensive. I am comfortable in both worlds, deep engineering is fun, but sharing the powers broadly has more positive impact overall I think.