This is well-aligned with why I am soon leaving my moderately high six figures to work on my own thing for a while completely unpaid. Success to me is building

This is well-aligned with why I am soon leaving my moderately high six figures to work on my own thing for a while completely unpaid. Success to me is building something great and that is something that no longer can be accomplished at a FAANG for the vast, vast majority of engineers at all levels. Sure you can twist some knobs and increase as revenue by 0.01% and be extremely valuable, but that is dead empty work.