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FAANG recruiters are very different than FAANG engineers.

• garciasn 5y ago
  The problem is that the recruiters are the face of the organization to those looking to become engineers.
• filoleg 5y ago
  This. Judging what engineers are like somewhere based on enthusiasm of one of their recruiters feels like doing the same based on enthusiasm of their HR people. Just think about your current company and how representative recruiters are of the engineers you work with. It is worlds of difference. Their jobs are to sell/advertise/source roles, engineering jobs are to produce/organize. If two roles don't overlap in function/interaction and goals much, I wouldn't compare them. However, if you hear the same koolaid drivel from engineers interviewing you, that would definitely be somewhat of a red flag. Especially if every single engineer interviewing you separately tries to make you chug that koolaid. Awkward one-offs could happen accidentally, and they do fairly commonly, but a chain of them is worrysome and serves as a warning sign to me. Not a "instantly run away" sign, mostly because it could be that they are just going by the script provided to them. But once you dig deeper and start paying attention to that explicitly, it usually gets more obvious which one it is.