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You know that (potentially misattributed) Steinbeck quote about how poor Americans view themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires? Well it seems like
by slg 4y ago
You know that (potentially misattributed) Steinbeck quote about how poor Americans view themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires? Well it seems like a large percentage of HN view themselves as temporarily embarrassed FAANG employees. Those are the cool places that people want to work, so people have a more natural empathy for their employees. Few have dreams of working for Yahoo, so their employees don't merit the same empathy and instead we get jokes made at their expense.
- incrudible 4y agoFAANG is the opposite of cool. The money is good and there is some prestige in getting through the hiring funnel, but ultimately as an individual you will be unimportant to the company and you will never be highly productive due to all the red tape.
- rjbwork 4y agoI thought we were mostly startup folks, at least as far as engineers go?
- irrational 4y agoThat would be an interesting poll. Personally I’ve never worked for a startup. I’m an engineer at a non-tech Fortune 100 company.
- ido 4y agoI think this was the case then HN was new, these days it's a very general tech crowd (like slashdot was 20 years ago).
- aardvark179 4y agoSo the startups are temporarily embarrassed FAANGs?
- gardenhedge 4y agoI would imagine this place hates on FAANG more than the average place.
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- zer0tonin 4y agoI'm 100% sure that quite a lot of actual FAANG employees are on HN
- smcl 4y agoI have absolutely no desire to join FAANG, and I am confident that I am not part of some tiny minority here.
- slg 4y agoLike Steinbeck, I was not speaking literally. Even if you hate those 5 specific companies, they represent a kind of pinnacle for tech workers in the way they pay, value, and empower their employees. Maybe you would never work at any of them today. They have a lot of baggage at this point. However I’m confident that many people here would have loved to work at a company like them at some point in those companies’ histories even if that time was back when they were run out of a garage.