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Re: Tools you’d miss if you left a company

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Not everyone finds BigCorp problems to be the interesting problems. Not everyone wants to live in the Bay Area. There's a lot of jobs in the world that aren't at FAANG, and it's okay if the right job for someone is at a place whose entire dev shop is smaller than the team at Google that maintains Blaze. If you find yourself in a job like that, it is absolutely the right call to invest in the best commodity tools you…

Just want to point out that you can work at FAANG without working in the Bay Area, or even the US. Amazon of course has headquarters in Seattle and both Google and Facebook have large engineering offices not only outside the Bay Area but outside the US. I've found there to be a pretty huge difference in those offices, particularly the European offices. The staff is far more diverse (e.g. I'm on a 40 person team and t…

That's just the cultural difference between Europe and America in general. Nothing particularly related to the big corps. But you'd also have to consider that the pay is considerably less if you work in Europe compared with working in the US.

Re: Tools you’d miss if you left a company

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This article makes little sense. "Engineering" by definition is some sort of "glue" work that reuses existing libraries/wheels and builds solutions out of them to address specific problems. I as an engineer am proud of this glue work that I do, just like the carpenters, plumbers, cathedral builders, doctors etc. If you really want to be unique and invent something, you should be in the academia and are probably in the wrong place to begin with.

I have a friend who worked in the TensorFlow team and still quit to pursue a PhD. In his words "all engineering jobs are boring" from his perspective. I don't think being in a BigCorp or not makes much difference at all.

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