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Honestly it doesn’t even seem like FAANG is very attractive in terms of comp to quality of life anymore. Or if it ever was. Maybe I’m wrong. Base comp seems co

Honestly it doesn’t even seem like FAANG is very attractive in terms of comp to quality of life anymore. Or if it ever was. Maybe I’m wrong. Base comp seems comparable to the Phoenix metro, but TC is jacked due to RSUs. You have to sell yourself as an idiot-fanatic to those companies; you live and breathe Apple/Amazon life etc. Only to work with engineers who are by no measurable means the top 1% of the industry. There seem to be really brilliant people who work elsewhere or just own their own business because they have zero tolerance for the absolute stupidity of the hiring and culture at FAANG-likes. They are simply scattered about. To answer your question, you can’t answer this question without collecting lots of data. Find tech companies, and probing for their compensation packages one way or another. Working with recruiters, collecting job postings, understanding regional TC.

ActorNightly 4y ago
FAANG at this point is as diverse as the whole startup landscape. Google and Amazon have their fingers in a lot of stuff, attracting a wide range of developers, with plenty of variability in things like management quality, quality of developers, on-call stress, uniqueness of work, e.t.c. Its very possible to find a good team within those (with Amazon probably being easier then others since it seems that they have the best intra-company transfer program), and its very possible to be stuck on a shit team with no free time. I would say that FAANG still wins in the metric of raw dollar/hour of actual work. You can find teams with budget to coast on, develop simple software, while getting paid at standard company rates for the levels.