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> It feels HN has become way more corporatist in the past few years -- everyone wants to work for FAANG, no one wants to do their own thing. You didn't have a
by Mc91 5y ago
> It feels HN has become way more corporatist in the past few years -- everyone wants to work for FAANG, no one wants to do their own thing.
You didn't have a situation like FAANG and its cohorts in the past, paying what they do and hiring like they do, in as attainable of a way.
Banking $270k comp. as an L4 for a few years would allow me to "do my own thing" more than anything.
If you mean people like Gates, Zuckerberg etc., they had giant safety nets to fall back on.
- paulpauper 5y agoBig corporations are paying more than ever, in addition to surging stock prices for even the biggest of companies, so working at a trillion dollar company is more lucrative than most startups. It did not always used to be that way.
- jacquesm 5y agoAnd given the scale factors involved it is still cheap, even at that level.