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> FANG is the best way to get peace of mind You make working for a large corporation sound like a religions experience. I've worked in start ups my entire car

> FANG is the best way to get peace of mind You make working for a large corporation sound like a religions experience. I've worked in start ups my entire career, never once in 13 years did I worry about job security or financial issues in general, the market is just too good for competent software engineers. The last one happened to have a very successful acquisition and now I still work at my startup (one of the lucky ones whose culture and working environment survive acquisition), but it's part of a larger fortune 100 company. Now I have a start up life, a FANG salary, and mission that doesn't include cramming ads in eyeballs or invading other's privacy and I can't help but to feel that my way was the best way. This isn't to say that my way actually was the best way, but that calling out any single career path as "the best" seems likely to be wrong.

Jensson 5y ago
> You make working for a large corporation sound like a religions experience. Having so much money you don't have to work is like a religious experience, it makes you revaluate life etc. Getting to that point without having to sacrifice anything is very valuable. > Now I have a start up life, a FANG salary, and mission that doesn't include cramming ads in eyeballs or hording private data and I can't help to feel that my way was the best way. Right, you got lucky. I went the reliable path where you get this every time. Start-ups is not a good way to get peace of mind, working 35 hours at FAANG is.
- rhexs 5y ago
  Do any FAANGs have a reputation from being able to actually work 35 hours a week? Google is the only one that comes to mind. That certainly isn't widely true for Amazon or Facebook.
  - Jensson 5y ago
    Can just aim to get a job at Google then? It isn't like their interviews are harder than Facebooks, and they are big enough that there there are always spots open. Also there are probably many smaller companies around with WLB similar to Google, just that they aren't as famous, no? It isn't like people use FAANG to literally just mean those 5 companies in these discussions, any company paying similarly works.
- deeviant 5y ago
  > Start-ups is not a good way to get peace of mind, working 35 hours at FAANG is. Your whole talk of "peace of mind" is misguided, as it means different things to different people, the whole point of my original comment that seems lost on you. Thus there is no "best" way to go about getting peace of mind. For instance, I'm working on technology that reduce herbicide usage in row crop farming by 50%, while being in FANG pay bands, that brings me peace of mind. If you are perhaps in uncertain visa/citizenship position or it some sort of financial state that is precipitously close to ruin and absolutely require absolutely no risk, FANGS may represent the "peace of mind" that you are trying put them off as, otherwise, you are exaggerating the difference. And most people find happiness through their relationships with other people, the nature of their work and the lack of financial difficulty (which hardly requires a FANG).
  - Jensson 5y ago
    > And most people find happiness through their relationships with other people, the nature of their work and the lack of financial difficulty (which hardly requires a FANG). At least to me work is inherently stressful and I can't get peace of mind as long as I have to go to a job. You seem to love working so to you it doesn't matter if you have money or not, but that isn't normal most people don't like working for other people. So to me there is a huge difference between "lack of financial difficulties (if you work full time)" and "lack of financial difficulties (you don't need to work if you don't want to)".

Jensson 5y ago

> You make working for a large corporation sound like a religions experience. Having so much money you don't have to work is like a religious experience, it makes you revaluate life etc. Getting to that point without having to sacrifice anything is very valuable. > Now I have a start up life, a FANG salary, and mission that doesn't include cramming ads in eyeballs or hording private data and I can't help to feel that my way was the best way. Right, you got lucky. I went the reliable path where you get this every time. Start-ups is not a good way to get peace of mind, working 35 hours at FAANG is.

rhexs 5y ago
Do any FAANGs have a reputation from being able to actually work 35 hours a week? Google is the only one that comes to mind. That certainly isn't widely true for Amazon or Facebook.
- Jensson 5y ago
  Can just aim to get a job at Google then? It isn't like their interviews are harder than Facebooks, and they are big enough that there there are always spots open. Also there are probably many smaller companies around with WLB similar to Google, just that they aren't as famous, no? It isn't like people use FAANG to literally just mean those 5 companies in these discussions, any company paying similarly works.
deeviant 5y ago
> Start-ups is not a good way to get peace of mind, working 35 hours at FAANG is. Your whole talk of "peace of mind" is misguided, as it means different things to different people, the whole point of my original comment that seems lost on you. Thus there is no "best" way to go about getting peace of mind. For instance, I'm working on technology that reduce herbicide usage in row crop farming by 50%, while being in FANG pay bands, that brings me peace of mind. If you are perhaps in uncertain visa/citizenship position or it some sort of financial state that is precipitously close to ruin and absolutely require absolutely no risk, FANGS may represent the "peace of mind" that you are trying put them off as, otherwise, you are exaggerating the difference. And most people find happiness through their relationships with other people, the nature of their work and the lack of financial difficulty (which hardly requires a FANG).
- Jensson 5y ago
  > And most people find happiness through their relationships with other people, the nature of their work and the lack of financial difficulty (which hardly requires a FANG). At least to me work is inherently stressful and I can't get peace of mind as long as I have to go to a job. You seem to love working so to you it doesn't matter if you have money or not, but that isn't normal most people don't like working for other people. So to me there is a huge difference between "lack of financial difficulties (if you work full time)" and "lack of financial difficulties (you don't need to work if you don't want to)".