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I'm entering my late 20s. I'm wondering if I still have a chance

• smt88 6y ago
  You do have a chance. You should wonder if you want it. Ignoring the ethics of each company, the lifestyle is not for everyone. You should try to figure out if it's a good fit for you or not.
  • olnluis 6y ago
    What is the lifestyle, though? I was under the impression that all FAANG companies are pretty different from each other.
    • smt88 6y ago
      Well, most of them involve (pre-Covid) living in one of a few extremely expensive cities. All of them involve being a single person in a huge organization, which is very different from being (for example) the CTO of a lifestyle business or the first hacker of a startup. A friend of mine works on CSS optimization at Facebook. That is both narrower and deeper than anything you would do at a small company. There's also the question of who your coworkers are. Large companies are large enough that you can spend all your work time with other devs. That's not true at a small company.