> FAANG engineers are usually pigeonholed into extreme niches and work with rigid longstanding systems. Startups need jacks of all trades. My experience in one

> FAANG engineers are usually pigeonholed into extreme niches and work with rigid longstanding systems. Startups need jacks of all trades. My experience in one of the FANGs is the exact opposite: they value jack-of-all-trades that can onboard onto a new project at the drop of a hat and hit the ground running, regardless of prior experience. Their goal is to have organizations where engineers are perfectly interchangeable and replaceable if need be, which is key to fire whole teams without having any relevant impact on productivity. It's recruiters who post impossible requirements regarding professional experience on specific combinations of tech stacks, which culminate in the old meme about job adverts requiring double-digit work experience in brand new tech stacks.