1. The Reality of Working at FAANG
Developers at FAANG companies often accomplish little of personal impact, sometimes ending up as isolated cogs focused on trivial tasks like ad clicks.
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0:51 · 25 April 2023
FAANG Jobs Are Not Worth It
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2. Comparing Team Size and Compensation
The speaker compares being number five in a team of ten with being one developer among ten thousand, asking viewers to consider compensation alongside their place in a team.
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fang jobs are overrated. Ask any software developer that works at a Fang, why? Well, first of all, you won't get much done. You will most likely be a cog in a huge tech conglomerate, and you might even get fired via an automated email after 20 years of working there. I'm joking, but it's a true story. Again, it's like, you know, you take the brightest minds we've got in software engineering right now, and you put them all together in a cubicle with their only task to get more people to click on ads.
And come on. If you're an ambitious developer, you probably got into this field because you want to build things that have an impact. And of course, you want to make lots of money and you can't do both things outside of fangs. Sure. You might not get those fat checks and stock packages. But would you rather be number five in a team of 10 or number 974 in a team of 10,000? Think about that.