How do you like the worklife balance in FAANG. Is that something special or as regular IT companies.

How do you like the work-life balance in FAANG. Is that something special or as regular IT companies.

Regarding work-life balance in FAANG

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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

Software Engineer

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

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...

Product Manager

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.

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What are the perks , how's job experience ?

How is it working for FAANG India

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Due to the toxic environment at my current employer(FAANG), I had to resign. I am taking a job which is a step down in pay and role (a refresh basically) and am moving outside tech( no hiring in tech rn :/)

In short to long term, how can I save this career mishap? Although the step down is worth it mentally, given the toxicity I am facing in my team at FAANG, I do want to recover professionally. I have applied a lot but I am 100% sure I won’t get a better job in this market.

Help from experienced folks

Folks working in FAANG or comparable large tech companies, do you miss your startup days, does big tech give same level of exposure and learning opportunities. What do you miss the most ?

With well funded startups I see a few benefits - 
1. Not being cash strapped so more stability
2. Large scale so good exposure and impact 
3. Good engineering practices as large startups are open to adopt and provide resources for learning and integrating new technologies
4. Company still has speed of execution hence plenty of exciting work
5. Comparable pay scale to big tech companies

What are some added benefits of large tech companies now that layoffs have become a common trend across the industry ?

FAANG vs Well Funded Startups

Can people who have been at FAANG for 4-5+ years share what their salary progression has been like?

I came to know recently about someone where the first year TC for a L5 position at Google was 1.54cr where the base was 60.5 lpa. Assuming one starts at 1.54cr (which in my mind is already quite inflated for someone with 8 year experience), what would their salary progression look like?

Salary progression at FAANG

I earn enough. Here are my problems:
1. Don’t have friends who I can talk to 
2. Dating life is weird and complicated (can’t find someone I’m truly happy with)
3. Don’t enjoy living in blr
4. Don’t have tight bond with siblings or parents

Suggest me some ways in which I can improve. Please only suggest things that worked for you.

26 (M) depressed Af!

Growth Manager

I have never seen official handle of any FAANG page featuring a day in office? Is it the new trend? 

If this is official then definitely Vasundhra is getting extra hike 😅😝

Your thoughts on FAANG’s IG

Engineering Manager

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

I am a fresher currently working at Texas Instruments as a software developer and I have deferred offer from Amazon. Should i consider joining Amazon considering that I have almost same compensation at this time.
What will be your take on this considering the competitive market? For now work life balance is good at Texas instruments.

What's the future scope comparing both texas instruments and amazon?

Amazon vs Texas Instruments

Can I switch to FAANG (or any product based company)? Currently working at service based on tech stack mostly used by service based only.

I've gotten very comfortable now. WFH many days, take regular yoga and breaks without anyone asking where I've been. As long as I'm getting my work done and I'm in the meetings I need to be in, no one really asks me what I'm doing. 

Sometimes it nags me that I could be doing better things with my time but the money is just too good.

So I'm asking you all, how did you decide where that balance was and if you're happy with your choice?

What do you think: FAANG was (or wasn't) worth it?

I was interning at Microsoft and got the PPO as well. But I chose to join a remote startup and resigned from Microsoft, for various reasons including Pay, Learning, Product, Tech stack, etc.

And everyone I talked with since then has asked the same thing, "bro why did you leave Microsoft?",  "bro Microsoft is such a big brand", blah blah.

When are we going to realize that working for a FAANG /MAANG /FAANGMULA /LODALASAN company is not the ultimate goal of everyone's life ?

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