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…
Re: Tools you’d miss if you left a company
#111That'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.