Everything you've said indicates you are working at Amazon. Save all of the money and run away once you've lucked into a Google offer.
Not Amazon. Definitely Google.
Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
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#42It’s just a 2 year stint my guy
You’re not married or anything close to that and you don’t have an hour commute anymore either
Maybe don’t work nights and weekends. The rest of your team lowers the bonus performance expectations, so just coast and collect yours
Re: Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
#43Quit and join a startup? Feel free to reach out, we're only hiring A+ players and solving hard problems.
Where?
Re: Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
#44Consider trying less hard. Do mediocre work. They’re all still employed for doing mediocre work. It may be very difficult to produce poor quality work - you’ll have to overcome your “I’m brilliant” ego to do so — but you can trust that your peers, by your description anyways, are not encumbered by such ego.
Re: Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
#45>just accept it as it is and coast
This is why you go to faang. Take the money.
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#46Quit your whining and fix the damn problems. You sound like an entitled brat. If you're so smart compared to everyone else on your team, then you should have no problems fixing things. Why do you have to work nights and weekends? Are they asking you to? If not, then why put that on yourself? And even you work occasional nights and weekends, so what? Part of the joy of software development is the positive feedback loop of fixing something and moving on to the next broken thing. I did nights and weekends in the past because it was fun! I enjoyed problem solving.
As someone in a movie once said, "Now you can either accept that, or you can get to work. That's all it is. You just begin. You do the math. You solve one problem... and you solve the next one... and then the next. And if you solve enough problems, you get to come home"
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#47"A+ players solving hard problems" Is this really what people think when joining a large company such as FAANG ? I mean not everyone can be an A player in a company with 1000s of employees, correct ? Also not every team is going to be solving hard problems. Someone has to do the dirty things. Isn't that understood ? Not trying to shit on you OP but I would have tried to learn more about the team in interviews if poss…
The hoops you have to jump through to snag one of these jobs make it seem like everyone there must be on top of their game. The truth seems to be that once you've got the position you can coast, these organizations are just too large, too bureaucratic and too rich to solve the problem of poor performance effectively
> The hoops you have to jump through to snag one of these jobs
This right here is exactly the problem. In the interview you are expected to write a fault tolerant k-way distributed sort and publish it to production, in 3 hours. Once you are embedded in your team they'll have you fixing typos on the landing page.
"Our interview process is good at finding people who are good at interviewing, not good at their job." ~ Someone I follow on Twitter
Re: Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
#48> "a FAANG"
What's that? There's only five of 'm, just give us a name. ;)
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#49> I'm on a team that... is staffed with below-average IQ people.
I would definitely not want to work with you.
Re: Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
#50"A+ players solving hard problems" Is this really what people think when joining a large company such as FAANG ? I mean not everyone can be an A player in a company with 1000s of employees, correct ? Also not every team is going to be solving hard problems. Someone has to do the dirty things. Isn't that understood ? Not trying to shit on you OP but I would have tried to learn more about the team in interviews if poss…
Reality is also there is just a lot of regular stuff that needs to happen. Handle this report, deal with this type of issue, improve tooling for X.