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It sucked. Constant gaming for perceived power by people who have been the smartest one in the room all their lives. Empathy occasionally happens, but it tend
by m0llusk 4y ago
It sucked. Constant gaming for perceived power by people who have been the smartest one in the room all their lives. Empathy occasionally happens, but it tends to get squashed. A lot, well pretty much everything, depends on the teams and projects you get directly involved with.
- xfgr 4y agoYeah, same sort of experience here. It was interesting work, and I had some decent teammates, but every other person was an asshole, especially as they got further up the management chain. I'd never work for FAANG ever again, it's not worth the mental health damage. I hear similar from friends who work for big pharma. Soulless corporate vampirism.
- decafninja 4y agoBut that isn't exclusive to FAANG. The problem with non-FAANG companies is they can have all these problems too - and don't have the benefit of being FAANG. You could go work for some insurance company's cost center IT department and experience all of those same negatives while experiencing none of the positives that a FAANG brings to the plate to your career. (For argument's sake, by "FAANG", let's refer to all similar "top" tech companies, not just the companies represented by those 5 letters)