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background in FAANG means nothing

• thr0w 2y ago
  Means something if those doing the hiring think it means something.
• meiraleal 2y ago
  Means a lot actually. For example, expensive and not great at innovation. But with 3 years of enshittification experience.
• red-iron-pine 2y ago
  depends whatchu did at said FAANG and who is doing the hiring. but generally agree. places like the GOOG are so far out there in terms of tooling and approaches (and size, and bureaucracy, etc.) that you end up with a hire who is damn good at whatever unique internal tooling and job sets are, but can't handle anything else. they'll expect 250k at minimum, get surly when they don't get it, constantly look to jump or climb, and won't jive with the culture, esp. once that's still using a lot of the more basic approaches that are more common in larger, non-STEM enterprise orgs. inevitably these guys jump in 1.5 years or less, and achieve nothing of note in that time, except harping on how great tool X is at Meta, or how we did Y at the GOOG and everyone else should. or some sort of PTSD from working at Amazon. after a couple rounds of getting burned by people with amazing resumes we are now weary of the FAANG pedigree.