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| interconnect engineering organization Have you worked at FAANG before? Their "interconnectedness" is near non-existent. I'd agree if you'd say that some tea
by _jdzr 4y ago
| interconnect engineering organization
Have you worked at FAANG before? Their "interconnectedness" is near non-existent.
I'd agree if you'd say that some teams are well connected. I'd also agree if you mentioned that these teams are almost always senior+ level engineers. These are not easy teams to join... In my experience they're almost impossible to join without connections.
I think @lukaslalinsky has a much better opinion on this.
That being said I think your point is valid for companies which do have pronounced non-siloing culture... But, in my experience, those companies haven't given me white boarding or LC style interview questions ;-).
- Jensson 4y agoGoogle and Facebook doesn't silo their teams, and they have harder algorithmic interviews than Amazon or Apple (although Amazon and Apple focus more on other skills).
- _jdzr 4y agoI have a close friend who's at Google and disagrees with this.
- lumost 4y agoI have, and the interconnectedness is strong. Even a junior engineer's work is visible to a group of 30-100 people typically. If someone is missing what's interpreted as "Basics" then it will become apparent quickly. Basics here could mean "putting out sloppy CRs/Designs", not communicating timelines well, or when problems arise - not addressing them in a way that everyone else on the team thinks is correct. Bear in mind that most FAANGs are also built on 20-30 years of fast paced technical development. There are services built on top of internal frameworks, built on top of internal frameworks that sometimes haven't been maintained in 5-10 years. Searching for the answer is many times impossible.
- _jdzr 4y agoGlad you've had a positive experience with it. All I'm arguing is it's much less likely that an entire company has this versus a particular org or even a specific set of teams. I have many friends at FAANG and many of them would disagree with your take on them being interconnected and definitely lean more toward it being team dependent. This also is similar to my experience.