I've never worked at FAANG but have at a Fortune 500 and now work at a company with < 500 people. The major difference I see is large corporations have a certa

I've never worked at FAANG but have at a Fortune 500 and now work at a company with < 500 people. The major difference I see is large corporations have a certain amount of randomness where entire products will get cancelled (its not just Google), internal re-orgs, appease the shareholders layoffs, or political in-fighting happens and someone "wins" and people get let go. At a smaller company in an engineering dept of ~150 you know what most teams do and might know someone on each team. There is less random acts of large company that occur. Sure if business is bad, stuff is going to happen but that is usually something you can see coming.