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Those 12,000 employees are first in line for every and any job, before anybody who does not have FAANG credentials. I don't think that's really true. Having a

Those 12,000 employees are first in line for every and any job, before anybody who does not have FAANG credentials. I don't think that's really true. Having a FAANG on your resume increases your chance of getting an interview, but very few companies will employ someone simply because they've come from a FAANG. It will always come down to how well you interview and what your tech test is like. Experience counts for a lot but most companies just don't need the sort of experience working at Facebook gives you.

andrewingram 4y ago
Anecdotally, when I've interviewed candidates from FAANG, they've generally been a weak "would hire"; i.e. decent enough but not overwhelmingly good.
- b112 4y ago
  I wonder how many FAANG candidates' primary interviewee skill, is memorizing pointless trivia, and endless thought twisters. Mostly off of books bought on amazon. None of that provides for creative thinking, or real world problem solving. Nor demonstrates it. Do these candidates interview well with normal corps? I wonder.
  - bradlys 4y ago
    I wonder if you’ve been through FAANG interviews in the last 8 years. It sounds like you haven’t. I’ve not found other companies interviews to be particularly good either. Non-leetcode interviews get biased a lot towards personality, resume, and ability to BS.
    - andrewingram 4y ago
      But since any exercise you choose is going to be flawed in some way, to me it's about getting as much diversity of signal in the time you're willing to spend per candidate. For smaller orgs, 3 hours of interviews is a reasonable cap, and I find I just don't get enough signal from leetcode exercises relative to the time they generally take (in my experience as a candidate, it's been 1-2 45 minute exercises).