Sorry If this sounds like a rant brother.
Why microsoft? why every student is running behind FAANG? please don’t take this personally, I am more concerned about the trend in general.
No focus on building the right skills or future proofing yourself in terms of the tech, but whatever lands me in FAANG I am fine.
There are far far better companies present that takes your learning 0-100 in very small span of time, but people still want to land FAANG.
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FAANG pay is border line average.
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Culture usually depends on team to team but I can see a lot of people choose FAANGs to stay there in the later stage of their career.
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apart from some teams, most projects are just in maintenance mode or very less innovation.
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And due to this FAANG culture, people who are there have a massive ego.
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FAANG Recruiters make you feel like they are the ones giving jobs and doing you a favour.
Ask yourself questions-
- At this stage of your career do you want to be in a place like this?
- is it the FAANG status, or pressure from society that once you are there you are top 1%?