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There are, thankfully, more companies in the world than FAANG.
by booleandilemma 3y ago
There are, thankfully, more companies in the world than FAANG.
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- JohnFen 3y agoA lot more. You literally couldn't pay me enough to work for a FAANG company, but I have a wonderful and profitable career nonetheless.
- dijit 3y agoI considered it once, because of piper, blaze and a bunch of interesting sounding engineer culture. Not really the salary or perks. But it sounded like a massive bureaucracy, and a little like a cult, so I avoided it, and I’m glad I did.
- giantg2 3y ago"it sounded like a massive bureaucracy" Thats pretty much any large, or even medium companies, right?
- JohnFen 3y agoHonestly, while some bureaucracy is inevitable, how oppressive it is can vary a lot. The last large multinational corp I worked for had a fairly horrific amount of it. The one I work for now (roughly the same size) has a tolerable amount of it.
- WirelessGigabit 3y agoI think most companies as they grow will have people who are about to be redundant and then create layers of paperwork that need to be filled solely to justify their raison d'être.
- giantg2 3y ago"You literally couldn't pay me enough to work for a FAANG company," I'd do a lot of unpleasant things if the price was right.
- JohnFen 3y agoSo would I! I suppose that I shouldn't have said "literally" there. If a FAANG company were to offer me a million dollars for a day's work, and I only had to work for a single day, I'd be in. But I know my own temperament, and enough people who work at various FAANGS, to know that if I had to work there for more than a couple of months, I would be utterly miserable regardless of the pay rate. I have worked at large international tech companies, and that's been fine, though.
- giantg2 3y agoI'm utterly miserable at my job. I'd rather be miserable and making big money than miserable and making less than the nation median for devs.
- JohnFen 3y agoWell, sure, if the choice is between two miserable jobs, I'd take the better paying one. But I'd only do it temporarily while looking for a better job even if in another line of work entirely.
- giantg2 3y agoAt this point, I don't think a better job or industry is out there. Retirement is my goal.
- sneak 3y agoAnd furthermore it's never been cheaper or easier to start a new one if none of the existing ones suit you.
- edgyquant 3y agoNo idea why this comment was downvoted on HN of all pls es
- usui 3y agoIt sounds like wishful thinking with slight pandering to HN crowd. Is it really easier now compared to before? There are exponentially more incumbents than before.
- Apocryphon 3y agoIs it easier? Doesn't increasing interest rates put the kibosh on cheap capital?
- Apocryphon 3y agoThe article addresses that: > But none of the faang firms was here this time. Neither were Spotify, Salesforce, Uber or Microsoft. In any case most of those companies and almost 50 others – “all the famous ones” – had already rejected her internship applications a few months earlier.
- itronitron 3y agoIt's almost as if Tech is about to be de-fanged.
- Apocryphon 3y agoOne could consider other giants (Microsoft, Salesforce) and public unicorns (Uber, Spotify) as part of FAANG ("Big Tech"), not just the five companies in the literal acronym. Unless you're suggesting that all of the tech companies smaller than that tech Fortune 500/NASDAQ tier (again, really need a phrase and maybe listing of such firms) might come to prominence?
- itronitron 3y agoJust fantasizing about the end of the era in which software companies feel they have to dominate a captive global user base with their one web application.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoI keep forgetting what the N in FAANG stands for, then remember it must be Nintendo or Netflix or something. It’s already an outdated acronym.