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>So my advice to non-FAANG developers: if you want to make development your career, learn to be bored. is life at FANG really that different tho? Can't imagine
by codesuela 6y ago
>So my advice to non-FAANG developers: if you want to make development your career, learn to be bored.
is life at FANG really that different tho? Can't imagine that everyone is working on exciting stuff all the time. Would appreciate if someone could enlighten me.
- zomglings 6y agoThe only difference at (most of) Google is that you would use grpc instead of ftp and protobuf instead of txt.
- dhsysusbsjsi 6y agoWell somebody has to be the one to annotate a million private and public SDK’s with @nullable !! And once you’re done with that, there’s a whole load more refactoring for the latest language update!
- mmmmmbop 6y agoI can speak for only one of the FAANGs, but the work I do there is definitely the most exciting to me personally from all the companies I've been at. There are challenging technical problems that require discussion with other engineers to design a solution. In most companies I've been before the challenges were mostly organizational and I had to deal with all of the "agile" crap to please PMs and managers, while the actual technical work was boringly easy. It's not always rainbows and butterflies here either but I do feel much happier with the work I do here.