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I think people need to look at the multiplier FAANG companies provide salary / bonus / RSU wise. My experience is that these companies pay a significant market

I think people need to look at the multiplier FAANG companies provide salary / bonus / RSU wise. My experience is that these companies pay a significant market premium, but expect total control over your life for that margin. Everyone else I suspect is going to adapt to this work. There are people who want to work in a office. People who don't. We will need to find ways to make both successful.

munificent 5y ago
> but expect total control over your life for that margin. Data point: I work at Google and the amount of control they have exerted over my life is significantly less than any previous job I've had, including random minimum wage jobs in high school. FAANG companies want high productivity at fairly intellectually challenging work. You get that by treating people like humans, not machines.
tsycho 5y ago
Unfortunately, almost every company expect "total control" [1] over your life during work hours. FAANG companies just pay more. Also, tech workers probably have way more autonomy on their schedule than most other industries. Btw, I am just responding to your comment that "FAANG companies own you life"; not making an argument for remote vs in-person. I personally think that a hybrid model is great, and strongly agree with the currently-top comment by librish[2]. [1] significant control, if not total control [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30534539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30534539
UncleMeat 5y ago
> but expect total control over your life for that margin Today I started work at 11 and ended work at 4 because I slept poorly last night. I'm a staff engineer at Google. This "total control" thing hasn't been my experience at all.