Am yet to meet an ex founder who is willing to grind to win as an employee. Every ex founder I know is working today to earn some money and get back as a founder in his new venture. 
 As a rule I never hire ex founders. I prefer people with lower middle class back ground. Who are desperately hoping to secure a minimal future. These are your hard workers. Reward them well, they will fight to the end. 
 Not your foreign returns, not your failed founders.

I'm an ex-founder who has aced employee roles later. Most ex-founders I know are specifically looking NOT TO START UP ever again.

Software Developer

You say "aced employee roles later" in past tense. So I am guessing you are no longer an employee.

Consultant

FAANG engineers are great hires for post-seed or post-series A startups. They have the skillsets to solve difficult scaling problems but are usually too slow to work with at early-stage startups. 
  
 I've seen regular non-FAANG engineers run circles around FAANG engineers at early-stage startups because they've got the mindset to make stuff happen.

FAANG IS still the no one preference for any startups. Investors would shower money if the team has Ex faangs.

Software Engineer

Are FAANG engineers not required anymore? Apparently the shit behaviour is hard to put up with.

Is this the death of FAANG dominance? (sic)

Product Marketing Manager

Is this the death of FAANG dominance? (sic)- Grapevine

Had a call with my cousin this weekend. Life has been very hectic lately so, I have been laying low for a while now. Anyway, my cousin reached out and he brought up something very interesting. He mentioned how the quality of new engineering grads at FAANG has been trending downwards over the last three or so years.

Technical competency aside, there is a weird behavioural shift wherein freshers have adopted job hopping every 2-3 years. He told me that there are zero engineers who stayed longer than 3 years at his org. 

I mean optimizing for pay is fine. The thing to really balance for is impact in the long run because at one point you would find it hard to scale beyond a Lead/EM role at an org. 

But the real thing is that the "FAANG" hype has started to die down amongst the 99th percentile of talent. I wonder how long will it take to have a trickle down effect to 80th percentile and so on.

Just to validate, I asked a friend for his opinion and he opined that "Bhai, tum FAANG mei naaukar ho ya kisi startup mei, ho toh naukar hi." Translation: "You can work at FAANG, or at a startup but you are still a servant(employee)"

Is the FAANG hype really dead?

Is the FAANG hype dead? 💀

Was there any faang hype among 99th percentile folks in the first place?? 
 I graduated from a tier-1 college, majority of my friends are from Similar colleges and if I look in my friend circle, most of the folks are working at high growth startups or something of their own.  
 Sorry to say but faang was never aspirational to begin with.  
 The target audience of youtuber bhaiya/didis were tier-2/3 folks and maybe this kind of hype exists among them.

Product Manager

I have noticed that the best people from my college got into FAANGMULA companies and ultimately trashed their mind while making great money. Their tech development has literally grown slower than living in a buddhist monastery. Their stunted learning is a strict reminder of how people get trashed into bad engineers with good money. Ultimately you can't even switch companies because no one will hire you at your ZIRP salary while you can't even be 20% of your CTC in terms of productivity.

Do you also hate how FAANG transforms smart people into trash engineers?

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I don't know if I'm right or not but I feel that software engineering in India is becoming more of "How to get into FAANG" rather than actually learning skills.

Whenever I open LinkedIn all I see is 
"What I did to get into FAANG"
"My life in FAANG"
"But this course to get into FAANG"

And the most fucked up scene is people are quitting there jobs at FAANG to create content to get into FAANG.
I'm so sick of it now.
Whom is to blame here?

FAANG Engineers are creating an eco chamber

Bhaiya/ Didi, please stfu. Keep your courses to you. If you really care about bringing revolution to edtech, then sell your courses for free. What you are doing is fooling the dumb gullible indian college kids. I don't want to see your randomass selfie explaining why your course is 10xbetter than the same other thousand courses. This breed is successfully ruining lakhs of students with the clickbaity crore rupee salary.

My blood boils whenever a person from NSIT/DTU, ex Microsoft/Amazon/Meta, 2021/22 placed starts preaching random gyan on LinkedIn about placement/ interview

2 year old post on Reddit. Its very long, but is pure gold! Covers each and every damn thing about Software Engineering! Must read for everyone!

Reddit - Dive into anything

The only rant you’ll ever need as a Software Engineer!

What are the biggest disadvantages of working in FAANG acc to you?

According to me:
1. Company leadership says A (which is something I most of the time agreed with), but I kept seeing middle management do B.
2. More and more processes and red tape. I did not like the direction the company was developing (I was in a sensitive org, so we had a lot of lawyers etc to begin with, but it got overbearing)
3. Promotions are extremely formulaic and at times I felt like an ape trying to tick 10 check boxes in a half.

The biggest disadvantage of working at FAANG...

Nishant Chahar…. Good kid but I won’t say anything special as striver ! Very very avg courses and once it got some traction, he is leaving. Not judging but this clickbait post it self has the answer

Same course 10 bar banane se , entrepreneur nahi bolskte bhai. You’re doing bijness ! Period , accept it 

Just understand one thing folks , don’t fall for this kind f things. It works for very very few percentage of folks, you shouldn’t work hard to join FAANG. A good engineer will become better at any company, they don’t need FAANG !!

Seems like course bechkar hi ghar chalayega

Hi I want to get job at offcampus Microsoft, I am cse-2024 passout unplaced.

Tell me from scratch what all skills are required to crack Microsoft,what should all i have to do? (CP,DSA...etc? )
I am ready to work really super hard 

Please spare  2min time and comment it will help me a lot

Microsoft, help me

Indian SDEs on LinkedIn & Twitter are some of the worst engineers you will ever find across the real world. Their typical value lies around:

- Cracking a FAANG/MAANG or Product company.
- Make an announcement on LinkedIn & Twitter and accumulating followers.
- Starting YouTube channel, Topmate links, affiliate marketing channels, and more.
- Rant DSA, System Design, Interview resources all day long. 
- Post daily of their office, their colleagues, candid shots, and barely getting any work done.

While this is expected out of early career professionals, it pains to see senior SDEs doing the same shit over and over again. Things don't end here — Everyone talks about creating a revolution. And the revolution is teaching DSA. 

If you are an experienced SDE and still ranting DSA, it just means that you have barely learnt anything that is of worth any value. You are atmost a "Ticket Engineer". You get assigned a Jira ticket, you bust your ass solving it, and that's it. That's your entire value. 

Its high time that these "Bhaiya", "Didis", "Bhabhis" stop ranting DSA and System Design over and over, and build something of real value. You would barely see any credible open-source projects coming out of India (but hey, we have some many contributors!), barely any Indie dev project, or anything that captures the attention of the world. 

Literally every popular SDE you might follow or see over your social media is the same. Their entire community game is a farce and designed to capture gullible college students and shill thousands of rupees out of them. You might be featured on Times Square ($40 ka showoff), but no one would remember you for anything that you built.

<Rant Over. Peace>

Indian SDEs will do all DSA and System Design chatter but cannot create any real value

Looking at so many layoffs at Google, Cloudflare and FAANG-type comoanies; that too in spite of having profitable quarters makes me think of FAANG is a curse instead of blessing?
Anyone with similar thoughts?

FAANG unattractive in 2024

The FAANG and unicorn employee salaries for even 2-7 YOE engineers is quite insane compared to the average Indian employee pay in other sectors of the economy.

The average SDE2 at these companies makes 50+ lakhs per year in compensation (not “CTC” but real money) The average SDE3 makes 80+ lakhs which is frankly insane.

What are you guys doing with all that money?

FAANG & unicorn folks, what do you do with all that money?

Giving 34.2% directly and 18-28% indirectly to gormint. My biggest expenses by a country mile.

Security Engineer

Analyst

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I've noticed a pattern where HRs from mediocre companies are extremely arrogant and ask unnecessary questions. Whether it is from their tone of voice, to asking ridiculous questions about a candidate's personal life and things that are already on the resume, why do they act so holier than thou? Now FAANG adjacent companies and their HRs/ first point of contacts are always empathetic and very clear in asking sensible, relevant questions. Why don't companies realise that their first point of contact is what affects their brand and hiring unqualified folks makes it worse. Have you ever noticed this? What do you think can be done to make this/ candidate experience better?

Why are HRs from mediocre companies so arrogant?

HRs in mid places are usually coming from really small / unknown companies and feel like they’ve made it hence the arrogance. Folks in big/decent companies usually have come from wonderful education bgs and workplaces and if not, have worked hard enough to reach where they are. That humbles you, I feel.

Marketing Creative

Found this and it made me smack my head on the pavement.

What is the most unhinged thing you have seen happen in FAANG?

UX/UI Designer

Came across a twitter post where a user says its impossible for tier 3 college folks to crack FAANG with freshers/low experience. 

How is the work culture at FAANG ??? Do you all get to work on the world changing products there ?

FAANG folks plz answer. 

Exception is amazon. Would like to know the rest all companies work culture.

Working in FAANG

Why do you want to work at FAANG? or Why do you not want to work at FAANG?

Why do you (not) want to work at FAANG?

I work on growth and marketing, and have to deal with perf marketing a lot. 
It is in these situations that I have to sometimes interface with people from FAANG or other larger companies. Because our org has major spends, we often have Account Managers/others from these companies as interface.

This experience is consistent across Microsoft, Google, Meta, etc. 
Firstly, they absolutely do not give two shits about your business. They will pretend to care about your business goals and even pretend that they understand what a startup needs. But they just dont. These are the most CHECKED OUT people I have ever met in my life

They meet with you like it's a check list. 

They absolutely do not care about startups. As platforms or as people. They don't give two fucks whether their work has any impact. It's just pretense - and hitting whatever basic targets they have. 

They do not care about anything related to work apart from 12 pm to 5 pm (their work timings)

They are a plague, slowing down society, lacking any spark to ever do any real work in this world.

Rant: Big Tech (FAANG) Employees/AMs are a menace

The number of influencers trying to sell their courses on coding and systems design has just went nuts. Anyone and everyone who is working in FAANG / MAANG/ WTFAANG seems to be selling dreams to everyone that this is how you get into and sustain into large scale companies.

Once these engineers join after clearing interviews (which are more or less a repeat of the same questions being asked for a thousand times), they find it hard to scale themselves to solve the real world challenges that are thrown at them. And then the complaining starts from all the angles.

For the sake of it, FAANG and all other such top tier companies are not gonna help you once your mental peace if completely f…ed up. 

If you think you are genuinely interested in solving issues at scale, spend some real time learning the basics, how the day to day software you use works, spend some time actually researching and banging your head trying to grasp how things are, because most of the challenging issues you are gonna face in your upcoming career won’t have youtube videos available to explain you why they happen.

Stop filling the pockets of influencers to teach you things which you should be putting efforts to learn by exploring yourself.

Rant over

These coding and system design courses in getting out of hands

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