Regarding work-life balance in FAANG

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.

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

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.

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?

What are the perks , how's job experience ?

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.

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 ?

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?