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It's strange to me that people love to shit on FAANG life so often. Every perk is scrutinized, as if serving dinner in the office means I MUST stay for dinner
by thelean12 6y ago
It's strange to me that people love to shit on FAANG life so often.
Every perk is scrutinized, as if serving dinner in the office means I MUST stay for dinner (I almost never do), or having a doctor or laundry service on campus is some nefarious thing.
At the end of the day, you get paid a huge amount of money to do a moderate amount of work. It's the dream, to me.
And then every once in a while people burn out and make it seem like it was the free dinner that did it. "I found my own doctor; I cook my own food." What does that have to do with anything?
(Sure, HR is shitty and that's something to care about. But that's an industry wide issue, not a FAANG specific issue.)
- bozzcl 6y ago> you get paid a huge amount of money to do a moderate amount of work AWS would like a word with you.
- fizwhiz 6y agoF's in the chat for all the Amazon employees that I'm sure lurk around here.
- thelean12 6y agoAlright well idk about Amazon. I've worked for a few FAANG but not Amazon. But Google, the topic of the article, is definitely a company where you can do a moderate amount of work for large amounts of money.
- doctor_eval 6y agoShe was sexually harassed in her workplace and says that the company protected the perpetrator at her expense. Any company that does this deserves to be shat on.
- thelean12 6y agoUh, yeah, of course. I wasn't saying anything contrary to that. All I said is that people focus on the FAANG perks way too much, as if they're contributing to some problem. Even in the article, one their shining moments was when they cooked for themselves and found another doctor (??).
- doctor_eval 6y agoSure, but I think the point the author was trying to make was that those perks, and the way they are sold to employees, are a much thinner veneer over ultra-capitalism than might be expected. These companies really do sell themselves and their perks to their employees and it’s pretty horrific that they seem willing to attack the victims instead of the perpetrators.