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Unfortunately, the company preferred to hire experienced ex-FAANG managers for those roles.
by aqme28 2y ago
Unfortunately, the company preferred to hire experienced ex-FAANG managers for those roles.
- mattgreenrocks 2y agoEveryone: Big Tech ruins news/social media/small businesses/democracy! Also everyone: FAANG employees are better than everyone else!
- p_j_w 2y agoI dont think FAANG employees are better than everyone else, but these two things don’t sound mutually exclusive.
- mattgreenrocks 2y agoAgree. Just an inflammatory observation that we are prone to both villainize and glorify the institutions that be without much cognitive dissonance. :) On second thought, "irrationally preferred during hiring" gets at that idea better.
- aleph_minus_one 2y ago> Also everyone: FAANG employees are better than everyone else! Rather: FAANG employees are pushed into startups by VCs.
- mattgreenrocks 2y agoHow so? They get paraded around as tokens of competence by VCs?
- mjmsmith 2y agoI've always found it amusing that FAANG pedigree is considered a plus for startup founders when the skill set is not only different but sometimes detrimental.
- hackitup7 2y agoNo, the VCs tell the founder/CEO to hire people who've done it before to help pay down the risks of unknown unknowns (which are real – this advice is overly simplistic but isn't conceptually wrong). This translates into them hiring from FAANGs if they take the advice semi-literally.