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,

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.