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Poll: Why do you want to work at FAANG?
Follow up from video, which had a very small (& possibly biased) sample size: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30512275
At least: Helps correct the perception of the desire
At most: Dispels a tech industry myth, calls out big tech marketing
Note: If you don't: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30512704
- DocTomoe 5y agoI don't, thank you very much (Missing option)
- baash05 5y ago100%.
- cr3ative 5y agoWhat Doc said. We've all heard the horrors of Amazon's management.
- baash05 5y agoI can't imagine working at a place that had 1000+ staff. I'd be a number, a cog.
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- baash05 5y agoGood follow up.. Why wouldn't you want to work at a FAANG.. - 1. I'd be a number - 2. I don't believe any of them have a mission. - 3. I think the hiring tests are really silly. - 4. FAANG's burn their staff out. - 5. The Perks don't mean much to me.
- mgh2 5y agoGood one, added here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30512704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30512704
- nikau 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCiPMIViylw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCiPMIViylw
- GianFabien 5y agoCould we stop conflating these companies? Personally I wouldn't work for FB, but I would like to work for Apple. The others fall between those two extremes.
- rg111 5y agoFB has created Reason, React.js, GraphQL, PyTorch, and so on. Apple is like jewellery to rich people. This is how I see it. I have friends in FB, and I hear that it is an extremely good place to work. I will never seek a job at Apple or Amazon. I will consider options in Netflix, Microsoft, FB, and Google, though.
- r-zip 5y agoThere is more to it than the libraries both companies create. FB has facilitated various societal issues (surveillance advertising, conspiracy theory spreading/radicalization, depression in younger users, etc.), but Apple for the most part just builds products people enjoy. To some (most?) the software projects produced are a secondary consideration.
- djohnston 5y agoApple directly enables surveillance in totalitarian states while patting themselves on the back as privacy champions in the US.
- rg111 5y agoFor me, in this order: 1. Being able to work in interesting tech. 2. Good pay. 3. Job is stable if performance is good. 4. Being able to work with smart people.
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- bradknowles 5y agoI didn't. I kinda stumbled into it. So far, this team looks to be really good, and I'm happy to be working with them. But I'm very suspicious of the company overall, and I'm definitely keeping an eye out for the various negative behaviours that I've seen them accused of regarding their employees. We will see how it goes. If this doesn't work out long term, I hope this means I'll be in a better position to get a different job at a different employer down the line. Only time will tell.