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I agree in general with the idea that any real life experience is good experience, and one previous job experience in FAANG will generally help you get a job in
by capableweb 5y ago
I agree in general with the idea that any real life experience is good experience, and one previous job experience in FAANG will generally help you get a job in the future as well.
But it also depends on what you want to work with in the future, and what kind of companies those are. Experience with FAANG, depending on the company, can actually make employers wary of you instead of amazed. I've seen companies expressing this myself, when I've helped companies with improving their hiring process and they talk about previous bad experiences hiring people who only had FAANG experience, people who try to shoehorn their "everything needs to scale 1000x" solutions into everything instead of being pragmatic, and also a disregard for slurping up data from users left or right and sending to 3rd parties, or even considering various solutions that are borderline unethical.
In general though, any experience in the beginning of your career will be good for your future prospects, so I wouldn't worry too much unless you have a specific idea of companies you want to work with in the future.