I find it funny that commenters on HN actually think their having past or current experience working at a FAANG is some sort of signal for two reasons. On HN e

I find it funny that commenters on HN actually think their having past or current experience working at a FAANG is some sort of signal for two reasons. On HN especially, that’s really nothing novel, many of us have (including me) and the only thing that it takes to get into one as a software engineer is memorizing the solution to coding problems. When I’m hiring - mostly for green field initiatives - coming from BigTech is usually a negative signal for me.