> "The point the chapter is making is that FAANGs are less likely to allow remote work / other freedoms, so if that means a lot to you, you should not work at a

> "The point the chapter is making is that FAANGs are less likely to allow remote work / other freedoms, so if that means a lot to you, you should not work at a FAANG. A quick check at levels.io can confirm this fact -- the vast majority of employees are on-site in a tech hub." Okay, fair enough. > "Whether or not this is an important skill depends on what you are optimizing for. I don't need to be able to deliver software at FAANG scale if I don't ever want to work at a FAANG." There's not much point to enduring the hardship of launching a startup if there's no hope of growing it into at least a medium or large business though? A solid understanding of software processes and even scaling that FAANGs use can be helpful even at that size. For example, a business I was at was encountering growing pains because their seat-of-the-pants YOLO software development processes weren't working for them anymore at the size they had grown to. Gently nudging them to adopt proper documentation and other software engineering processes known to ease those pains because they'd been battle tested at larger tech companies was part of what I was able to do to help them.