FAANG vs FANG. What does the extra "A" mean? I see people using both terms.
Apple/Amazon, depending which one you're missing.
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#302FAANG vs FANG. What does the extra "A" mean? I see people using both terms.
The two As are usually for Apple and Amazon. I think the shorter version of the acronym is just incorrect.
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#303FAANG vs FANG. What does the extra "A" mean? I see people using both terms.
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Maybe you forget how many hours are in a day? After 40h a week at starbucks you can't consult, teach, sit on multiple boards, and program everyday. Also, I've worked as a barista. My high paying tech job is waaaay easier.
Tech jobs are the easiest job bar being rich and watching investments make money for you. Crazy that people think being a barista is easier.
It's easier in the sense that more people are able to do it. Not in the sense that doing it incurs less suffering, or in the sense that making yourself do it requires less willpower. The spectrum between easy and difficult is multidimensional.
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> these engineers, while they all tend to be very smart, tend to be borderline junior engineers in the real world Define "real world"?
Small-medium sized businesses without dedicated devops people. I'm working with an ex-Googler who struggles with basic dev stuff like * How to make a Python environment for a brand new project * Source control basics like commits and merging * Reading documentation or using SO * Basic command-line debugging or even using print() statements! I've asked a few times: "How did you get anything done before?". And (S)He re…
> I don't thing FAANG's are touchy about firing people.
Google basically doesn't fire people unless they are grossly incompetent or if you broke some rules. It is very likely it took a year and a half to fire the person and they joined your company thanks to their credentials at Google and not their skills.
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#306I planned on retiring in 1998 when my wife and I moved from San Diego to the mountains of Central Arizona. I had some ‘getting bored’ issues and had some concern that our savings wouldn’t last forty+ years so I started periodic remote consulting gigs. In the last six years, I increased the amount of work I did, going to Google in Mountain View, doing an on site gig in Singapore, and lastly temporarily moving to Illin…
Oh, you are that Mark Watson that used to hang out on TSS [0] back in its hey days?
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I am 32 now. I am inspired to read this. I still need to get over the fact that I am not making anywhere near a FAANG engineer.
You're also likely not paying as much for living either.
The difference barely matters for the discrepancy between regular and FAANG salaries.
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#309I worked about 9 years at Facebook and Google. It’s a little hard to answer this because people do all sorts of things after leaving, and your future life is defined far more by why you do, than it is defined by the job you left.
If you generally enjoy your job but just not the employer, go work for someone else. There are plenty of non-FANG companies that will give you a similar pay package.
If you don’t enjoy the job so much, you can certainly do something else, but your future depends on what that something else is.
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I am 32 now. I am inspired to read this. I still need to get over the fact that I am not making anywhere near a FAANG engineer.
I was you, 5 years later I am working at a FAANG making 400k/yr Mind you I was making only 80k less at my last job, a non-FAANG startup. So not saying FAANG is everything, but the workload is sufficiently less than the mad max startup lifestyle.
EDIT: Just read that you said "80k less", not 80k. Actually, that's okay for me. As long as the work is quite interesting, but I'm not making anywhere near 320k.
Yeah, less workload, better pay, what not to like? I guess I just need to get better now.