"Shouldn't", "ought to" etc. don't hold in real life regardless of what we want or think as devs. A good illustration of this: https://old.reddit.com//r/recrui

"Shouldn't", "ought to" etc. don't hold in real life regardless of what we want or think as devs. A good illustration of this: https://old.reddit.com//r/recruitinghell/comments/qhg5jo/this_resume_got_me_an_interview/ https://old.reddit.com//r/recruitinghell/comments/qhg5jo/thi... The reality is that having passed an interview at a FAANG company, having any work experience at a FAANG company on your resume opens a lot of doors while looking for a new job, even if it's a few months. Being laid off from a FAANG company is still bad, but if it was part of a broad layoff for cost reasons then it's not bad. You can argue till you're blue in the face about how this is a bad thing but that does not change reality that those laid off from Google are better off in a job search than people laid off from random companies that no one heard of.