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I think commenters here are missing the point. The issue is that between the layoffs and things like Musk's Twitter meltdown, there's a reevaluation of prioriti
by KerrAvon 4y ago
I think commenters here are missing the point. The issue is that between the layoffs and things like Musk's Twitter meltdown, there's a reevaluation of priorities by the folks entering the workplace. FAANG is no longer attractive by default because they're now perceived to be absuing their employees.
- mattgreenrocks 4y agoGood! The last thing we need is to centralize brainpower among 5-6 too-large companies. There's also the dirty secret that there are lots of hard problems out there, and you probably have a better chance of working on one of those hard problems than you would at Google, where you'd come up against people with decades of experience and lots more credentials than you. We should be warning grads that getting into Google could mean you getting paged to keep Gmail running at 4am in the morning, rather than figuring out a sweet graph analysis problem. I worry that the grasping for status for some is actually a cover for, "I don't know what to do but I would like others to validate me."
- flappyeagle 4y agoif "abuse" = 300k salary + cushy office + free meals, gym, on site medical, flexible working hours, then the word had lost all meaning and reached escape velocity. this is some bizarre loss aversion fallacy going on. Please, don't give me a top 0.00001% best job in the history of mankind because there's a 15% chance I might lose it. What!?
- tennisflyi 4y agoI agree with most of what you said except for flexible working hours (they might not be 5 8-hour shifts, but they'll get it in some other capacity) - they usually want your soul.