[mlthoughts2018]

Yes they do. In all these places except Amazon, the engineering culture is essentially identical. I’ve worked at 2 FAANG companies and a few startups that had a big influx of ex-Google engineers. In fact it’s a whole process that startups go through to copy Google: monorepo + misguided in-house tooling for it, homebrewed canary deployment strategies, naming things “mon” like “altermon” or “datamon”, etc.

It’s a very miserable monoculture.

[yibg]

I assume the two FAANG you are referring to are the F and G. The rest of the letters aren’t like that. At least no monorepo.

[saagarjha]

Or "mons".

[yitchelle]

The engineering culture among FAANG companies is pretty much the same because of the industry that they operating in and the location of the HQ. Expand that to military or automotive, aerospace, in non-US companies and you might start seeing different engineering cultures.

[mav3rick]

Engineering culture at Google is vastly different than Amazon. Even Facebook which is more product oriented and iterates faster than focusing on the "right engineering design" first.

[akhilcacharya]

> Engineering culture at Google is vastly different than Amazon

How so?

[mlthoughts2018]

FB and Google engineering is basically identical in culture.

[mav3rick]

Yes because lots of Google left to join FB. And yet, I've heard everyone say in terms of pure engineering and tooling Google is far ahead. That's still F&G though not AAN.