Why You Don't Want To Work In FAANG

🚨 IMPORTANT:

FAANG is everyone's dream job, but what if I told you FAANG is a nightmare in disguise. Most people don't realize that FAANG is not at all what the movies make it out to be. It is really an extremely corporate environment that is constructed with the sole purpose of trying to get you to work as long and hard as possible. Most people don't realize that smaller local companies are some of the best ways to have a strong work life balance.

🧠 Concepts Covered:

- Why FAANG is corporate
- The problems with FAANG
- Why smaller companies can be better

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⏱️ Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
02:11 - Interview Problems
03:44 - The Work Is Not Fun
04:59 - It Is Very Corporate
06:26 - Hard To See Your Impact
08:07 - Terrible Work Life Balance
10:05 - High Cost Of Living
11:21 - Conclusion

#FAANG #WDS #JuniorDevJob

[josesoto]

The fact that there's people who quit fang jobs because teaching how to get into them is more profitable is insane

[skyebrownh]

Just to clarify, even computer science students aren't fully prepared to pass coding interviews either. Many times, the classes that teach us these things throw a lot of information at us at once which we only memorize to pass the final exam. It can be advantageous since we have to learn these things to graduate, but we still need to study and use online resources to pass technical interviews as well. Don't think that not having a CS degree puts you at a huge disadvantage, we all struggle with these interviews.

[othmane]

"So do you want to be a software engineer at Google?" I got this ad in the middle of the video. Was it a coincidence?!

[dusancojic]

I would like to work at Google to make a video "Why I left my $100k job at Google"

[mcjnlee]

But I want to be an ex-google millionaire

[dimitridoroshko]

"What are you gonna do with the money, if you don't have time to enjoy it"

[yasssh]

100% agree with you brother. Work life balance is important, life is much bigger than working all day!

[Klivdx]

Working in a FANG company for about a year or two must be beneficial though.
Exploring what's going on there, enjoying some perks (if they actually exists) and finally adding the company to your resumé :)

[randerins]

FAANG...
Microsoft: "Am I a joke to you?"

[OneAndOnlyMe]

Being rich is not having a large salary, but rather how much of your salary you have left over each month (after all expenditure) to spend on having fun without worrying about the cost of having fun.

[Elduque]

Small companies may also have you work a lot for a little a reward.

[alejandroagua]

Software development has been in transition in the last 10 years, from literally coding to system integration. You spend more time in using a framework or library then actually "thinking". For almost each algorithm/data structures problem you face, there are already tons of libraries that you can use. 20 years ago, you spend 80% of your time thinking of how to achieve things, today, you spend 80% of your time reading and searching tutorial, stackoverflow, copy and paste, modifying them, and find out why certain dependencies do not work with later or prior version of other dependencies. As such, FANG's method of interviewing candidates are actually only relevant to those who live 20 years ago or before. Modern interviewing system should be based on take home tests and a challenge to build a system.

[djcardwellai]

As a developer who works at a FAANG company I respectfully disagree. I've worked at small to mid-sized companies as a developer and the stress is higher and the pay is lower. That's just my experience and I'm not saying it can't be different for anyone else.

[andreduong]

Have you ever worked at a FAANG level company? It’s always people who hate the club that they can’t even get in.

[abnoco]

Old dog here. I was in IT before there was a FAANG and I also wanted a tech job in a larger company because I thought it would prove I made it. I got my wish and got a tech job at at a Fortune 50 company. It paid well but at a HUGE personal price. It sucked. I left but I stayed way too long.

PS It sucked so bad that I would have been happy to feel like a cog. I felt dead.

[beinyourguard]

I absolutely loathe any kind of company that likes to brag about them having ping pong tables, snooker, videogames, whatever. I don't need that. As you said, those are traps in order to keep the worker at the company as long as possible.

We demand larger wages and more recognition for our work, not a puff in the main room.

[mrbillfeng]

The only thing I’ll disagree with is saying that algorithms and data structures are not important. They might not be the best interview questions to judge someone’s overall ability, but they are very important when it comes to building large software. At the scale of FAANG companies, writing an algo that runs at O(log(n)) instead of O(n) could easily decide whether a feature is feasible or not.

[foxdie]

FANG need to know if you are able to study a lot of documentation. If you show your capacity for study, they'll contract you, because they need people who read a lot of documents only to change a CSS property in youtube module.

[prabhatchanchal]

Happiness is more important than money and show off.

[caleb]

It's hard to say algorithms and data structures are "useless in the real world". Algorithms are simply common ways of solving problems, and that is the job of a developer. Not as much in frontend to be fair, but like you said the majority of the work doesn't actually happen in the UI that users directly interact with.